Thanks for the reply--but is there any indication which file has this?  
There are so many conf files with so many comments!

rgds
Paul

Thomas Markus wrote:
> hi,
>
> you have a '--' inside a comment
>
> this is not valid. fi:
> <!--  some -- test -->
> raises this exception
>
> regards
> Thomas
>
> Paul Joseph schrieb:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I upgraded to Cocoon 2.1.11 and things are fine, other than I get 
>> this error in my Tomcat server log.
>> Also, my debug statements in my Flowscript do not show up in the 
>> Tomcat log as they used to.
>> Any pointers would be appreciated.
>>
>> thx!
>> Paul
>> ----------------
>> log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger 
>> (org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.sax).
>> log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
>> Logging Error: Could not set up Cocoon Logger, will use screen instead
>> org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The string "--" is not permitted 
>> within comments.
>>    at 
>> org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown 
>> Source)
>>    at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(Unknown 
>> Source)
>>    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown 
>> Source)
>>    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown 
>> Source)
>>    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown 
>> Source)
>>    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(Unknown Source)
>>    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLScanner.scanComment(Unknown Source)
>>    at 
>> org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanComment(Unknown 
>> Source)
>>    at 
>> org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown 
>> Source)
>>    at 
>> org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown 
>> Source)
>>    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
>>    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
>>    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
>>    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
>>    at 
>> org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
>>    at 
>> org.apache.avalon.framework.configuration.DefaultConfigurationBuilder.build(DefaultConfigurationBuilder.java:254) 
>>
>>    at 
>> org.apache.avalon.framework.configuration.DefaultConfigurationBuilder.build(DefaultConfigurationBuilder.java:202) 
>>
>>    at 
>> org.apache.cocoon.servlet.CocoonServlet.initLogger(CocoonServlet.java:849) 
>>
>>    at 
>> org.apache.cocoon.servlet.CocoonServlet.init(CocoonServlet.java:356)
>>    at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1139) 
>>
>>    at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:966)
>>    at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:3956) 
>>
>>    at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4230) 
>>
>>    at 
>> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.checkResources(HostConfig.java:1105) 
>>
>>    at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.check(HostConfig.java:1203)
>>    at 
>> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:293) 
>>
>>    at 
>> org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:120) 
>>
>>    at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.backgroundProcess(ContainerBase.java:1306) 
>>
>>    at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1570) 
>>
>>    at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1579) 
>>
>>    at 
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.run(ContainerBase.java:1559) 
>>
>>    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
>>
>>
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