Shibboleth Developers

["Howard Gilbert" <>]

Trying to run the current code from CVS with what I think are the current
checked in configuration models, HS fails to start because of a SAX parse
error. It appears (though I could be wrong) that the <FederationProvider>
element in origin.xml is required, and that the uri it points to is
/conf/sites.xml, and that this sites.xml file has no schema, and the parse
is failing because the main element <SiteGroup> is not declared since there
is no schema to declare it and the parse options are somehow requiring a
declaration.

Monday someone said they were running this code, and I let it sit around for
a few days hoping a fix would be checked in. The Origin html documentation
doesn't show a <FederationProvider> tag and doesn't list it as required.
This part of the configuration is new. There aren't enough comments for me
to figure what to do next.

The full messages are: 

2004-04-07 10:56:00,437 ERROR [HS] Core                                 -
Encountered a problem parsing federation metadata source:
org.xml.sax.SAXException: Error parsing xml file:
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of
element 'SiteGroup'.
2004-04-07 10:56:00,453 ERROR [HS] Core                                 -
Failed to load Federation Provider implementation class:
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
2004-04-07 10:56:00,453 ERROR [HS] Core                                 -
Root cause: edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.metadata.MetadataException:
Unable to parse federation metadata.
2004-04-07 10:56:00,453 ERROR [HS] Core                                 -
Unable to load Federation Provider.  Skipping...
2004-04-07 10:56:00,453 ERROR [HS] Core                                 - No
Federation Provider metadata loaded.
2004-04-07 10:56:00,453 FATAL [HS] Core                                 -
Handle Service runtime configuration error.  Please fix and re-initialize.
Cause:
edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.common.ShibbolethConfigurationException:
Could not load federation metadata.
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The origin.xml reference checked in is:

<FederationProvider
type="edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.metadata.provider.
XMLMetadataLoadWrapper"
                uri="/conf/sites.xml"/>

The sites.xml starts with (note no <?xml declaration):

<SiteGroup Name="https://localhost/shibboleth";
xmlns="urn:mace:shibboleth:1.0">