[OSM-dev] strange Osmosis/XML/...? problem yesterday

[Stephan Knauss]

Brett Henderson wrote:
> I was able to avoid the bug by using the Woodstox StAX XML parser.

JOSM suffers from the same problem.
Look here:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/josm-dev/2009-August/003268.html

It happens with the xerces bundled with java. Using a more recent xerces 
resolves the problem.

Can you try using XercesImpl 2.9.1? Supply the jar on the classpath.
java.exe -cp xercesimpl.jar org.apache.xerces.impl.Version
Xerces-J 2.9.1

Stephan