parsing problem while starting the web application

Hi,

I am getting the following error during my startup and also for every request.

SEVERE: Parse Fatal Error at line 8 column 6: The string "--" is not permitted within comments.

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.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLScanner.scanComment(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDTDScannerImpl.scanComment(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDTDScannerImpl.scanDecls(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDTDScannerImpl.scanDTDExternalSubset(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$DTDDispatcher.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.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1567)

at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.initServlet(ActionServlet.java:1433)

at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.init(ActionServlet.java:466)

at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:211)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1044)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.allocate(StandardWrapper.java:701)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:144)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invokeInternal(StandardContextValve.java:198)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:152)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)

at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:540)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:102)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:137)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)

at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:118)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:102)

at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:535)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:102)

at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:535)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:102)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:929)

at org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:160)

at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:799)

at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:705)

at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:577)

at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Jul 20, 2007 5:00:52 PM org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet initServlet

SEVERE: null