JAXP00010002 Element "refactoring" has more than 10.0000 attributes

[laeubi]

I saw this today when starting my Eclipse SDK IDE

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 3; columnNumber: 1839923; JAXP00010002: Element "refactoring" hat mehr als 10.000 Attribute. "10.000" ist der von JDK vorgeschriebene Grenzwert.
	at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:204)
	at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:178)
	at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:400)
	at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:327)
	at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:284)
	at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1366)
	at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2726)
	at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:605)
	at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:542)
	at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:889)
	at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:825)
	at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:141)
	at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(DOMParser.java:247)
	at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(DocumentBuilderImpl.java:342)
	at org.eclipse.ltk.internal.core.refactoring.history.RefactoringHistoryManager.getCachedDocument(RefactoringHistoryManager.java:871)
	at org.eclipse.ltk.internal.core.refactoring.history.RefactoringHistoryManager.addRefactoringDescriptor(RefactoringHistoryManager.java:787)
	at org.eclipse.ltk.internal.core.refactoring.history.RefactoringHistorySerializer.processHistoryNotification(RefactoringHistorySerializer.java:115)
	at org.eclipse.ltk.internal.core.refactoring.history.RefactoringHistorySerializer.historyNotification(RefactoringHistorySerializer.java:85)
	at org.eclipse.ltk.internal.core.refactoring.history.RefactoringHistoryService$3.run(RefactoringHistoryService.java:582)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:47)
	at org.eclipse.ltk.internal.core.refactoring.history.RefactoringHistoryService.fireRefactoringHistoryEvent(RefactoringHistoryService.java:573)
	at org.eclipse.ltk.internal.core.refactoring.history.RefactoringHistoryService.performHistoryNotification(RefactoringHistoryService.java:923)
	at org.eclipse.ltk.internal.core.refactoring.history.RefactoringHistoryService.lambda$0(RefactoringHistoryService.java:366)
	at org.eclipse.core.commands.operations.DefaultOperationHistory$2.run(DefaultOperationHistory.java:868)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:47)
	at org.eclipse.core.commands.operations.DefaultOperationHistory.notifyListeners(DefaultOperationHistory.java:857)
	at org.eclipse.core.commands.operations.DefaultOperationHistory.notifyDone(DefaultOperationHistory.java:923)
	at org.eclipse.core.commands.operations.DefaultOperationHistory.closeOperation(DefaultOperationHistory.java:1211)
	at org.eclipse.ltk.internal.core.refactoring.UndoManager2.changePerformed(UndoManager2.java:168)
	at org.eclipse.ltk.core.refactoring.PerformChangeOperation.lambda$0(PerformChangeOperation.java:264)
	at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Workspace.run(Workspace.java:2448)
	at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Workspace.run(Workspace.java:2473)
	at org.eclipse.ltk.core.refactoring.PerformChangeOperation.executeChange(PerformChangeOperation.java:294)
	at org.eclipse.ltk.internal.ui.refactoring.UIPerformChangeOperation.executeChange(UIPerformChangeOperation.java:94)
	at org.eclipse.ltk.core.refactoring.PerformChangeOperation.run(PerformChangeOperation.java:218)
	at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Workspace.run(Workspace.java:2448)
	at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Workspace.run(Workspace.java:2473)
	at org.eclipse.ltk.internal.ui.refactoring.WorkbenchRunnableAdapter.run(WorkbenchRunnableAdapter.java:89)
	at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:124)

[Bananeweizen]

Eventually you may want to set -Duser.language=en somewhere. I've also been surprised by German stack trace messages recently on my machine. :)

[laeubi]

The error code maps to this, and I thing the lang settings don't really will make the error go away ;-)

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/jaxp/limits/error.html

[jukzi]

please attach a xml that reproduces the issue and describe how to reproduce

[Bananeweizen]

I didn't raise the issue, but I believe this happens on very old workspaces where this refactoring history has too many entries on a project: