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This bug was originally marked as duplicate of bug 173248, that is already resolved. This bug is still valid, so this seems to be another bug, but it might be related. Build: NetBeans IDE 8.1 (Build 201510222201) VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM, 25.20-b23, Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment, 1.8.0_20-b26 OS: Windows 8 User Comments: GUEST: 123 Stacktrace: com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.io.MalformedByteSequenceException: 1 ??? UTF-8 ????? 1 ??? at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.io.UTF8Reader.invalidByte(UTF8Reader.java:691) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.io.UTF8Reader.read(UTF8Reader.java:557) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityScanner.load(XMLEntityScanner.java:1736) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityScanner.scanLiteral(XMLEntityScanner.java:1055) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.scanAttributeValue(XMLScanner.java:996) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanAttribute(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1547)
Created attachment 159572 [details] stacktrace
The catalog XML was damaged. While the IDE could probably report a better message to the end-user, I do not think it is that important to fix