Project: Eclipse_Platform_UI
Bug 24168 [Dialogs] XML dialog settings cannot start with a comment
Reported: 2002-09-26 22:12:10 | Status: closed fixed

I created a dialog_settings.xml for my plugin, and entered on the very first line a comment: the settings then fail to load with ClassCastException. An easy workaround is to push the comment down into the XML tree. org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.DialogSettings line 181: Element root = (Element) document.getFirstChild(); If the first child is not an element (e.g. a comment), ClassCastException is thrown.

Files changed in fix:
bundles/org.eclipse.jface/src/org/eclipse/jface/dialogs/DialogSettings.java