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Enterprise Architect => Bugs and Issues => Topic started by: Chris Perrin on February 12, 2010, 01:45:53 pm

Title: Error launching EA
Post by: Chris Perrin on February 12, 2010, 01:45:53 pm

Hi All,

When I launch EA I get the following error:

"Error creating XML Parser"

Can anyone help with this one? (Version 7.1 Build 832)

Many thanks, Chris

Title: Re: Error launching EA
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on February 12, 2010, 03:18:35 pm

Does it stop EA launching?   I've occasionally received it when shutting down EA - I suspect it's because I had multiple copies open and shutting down (at the same time).  Since it wasn't fatal, I just put it down to EAUI.

HTH,
Paolo

Title: Re: Error launching EA
Post by: Aaron B on February 12, 2010, 04:51:00 pm

What Operating System (and Service Pack) are you running?

This error sometimes indicates that you might need to re-register the msxml dll's on your system.

Try running each of the following commands from the "Run" command under the Windows Start menu:
  regsvr32 msxml3.dll
  regsvr32 msxml4.dll
 
Another possibility is to install MSXML 4.0 SP2 from the following link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3144b72b-b4f2-46da-b4b6-c5d7485f2b42

HTH.

Title: Re: Error launching EA
Post by: Chris Perrin on February 12, 2010, 04:55:53 pm

Paolo: Yes it stops EA from launching.

Aaron: Running Windows XP 2002 Professional SP3

Will try re-registering as per your suggestion and get back to you.

thank you both for your help...

Chris.

Title: Re: Error launching EA
Post by: Chris Perrin on February 16, 2010, 10:41:32 am

I could re-register msxml3.dll however got the following error from RegSvr32 for msxml4.dll"

LoadLibrary("msxml4.dll") failed - a dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed.