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Bug 16742

Summary:	Missing reason in Could not parse Ant file error prompt
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Aldo Eisma <aldo_eisma>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Ryan Cooper <ryan_cooper>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	P2	CC:	marco_mulder, rodrigo, simon_arsenault
Version:	2.0	Keywords:	usability
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 2000
Whiteboard:

Description Aldo Eisma

2002-05-22 07:05:04 EDT

When you make an error in an Ant build file (in this case xml that is not well-
formed) and you select Run Ant ... from the pop-up menu for the Ant, you get an 
error prompt "Could not parse Ant file" without any further explanation.

It would be helpful to display the same message as you would get in the console 
when running a target as external tool.
"D:\eclipse\workspace\Hello\hello.xml:4: The content of elements must consist 
of well-formed character data or markup."

See also bug 16740.

Comment 1 Simon Arsenault

2002-05-30 11:47:51 EDT

Error handling improved to include parsing error messages in dialog. In build > 
2002-05-30