I get this page from tomcat I´m new to Spring + Tomcat + MVC + Eclipse I ´ve been looking into the tld´s , the jsp´s and the *.java including the java controllers for not valid characters, but I have still this problem. Please help me Thanks Jose ================================= HTTP Status 500 - type Exception report message description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request. exception org.apache.jasper.JasperException: <h3>Validation error messages from TagLibraryValidator for fmt</h3> null: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x1f) was found in the CDATA section. <h3>Validation error messages from TagLibraryValidator for c_rt</h3> null: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x1f) was found in the CDATA section. org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:50) org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.dispatch(ErrorDispatcher.java:411) org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.jspError(ErrorDispatcher.java:76) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Validator.validateXmlView(Validator.java:1535) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Validator.validate(Validator.java:1481) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(Compiler.java:214) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:470) ..... ....... Apache Tomcat/5.0.28 =============================== In catalina´s log : [ERROR] DispatcherServlet - Could not complete request <org.apache.jasper.JasperException: ><h3>Validation error messages from TagLibraryValidator for fmt</h3> null: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x1f) was found in the CDATA section. <h3>Validation error messages from TagLibraryValidator for c_rt</h3> null: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x1f) was found in the CDATA section. null: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x1f) was found in the CDATA section. <h3>Validation error messages from TagLibraryValidator for c_rt</h3> null: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x1f) was found in the CDATA section. at org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:50) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.dispatch(ErrorDispatcher.java:411) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.jspError(ErrorDispatcher.java:76) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Validator.validateXmlView(Validator.java:1535) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Validator.validate(Validator.java:1481) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4006060#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...