From 9be6a85e2c4f81f321705fb61ac7625575a42776 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: wmayer <wmayer@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 10:58:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] More detailed error message when xerces fails to read in
 parameters

---
 src/Gui/ApplicationPy.cpp | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Gui/ApplicationPy.cpp b/src/Gui/ApplicationPy.cpp
index d11a35fc09..169a8e6f94 100644
--- a/src/Gui/ApplicationPy.cpp
+++ b/src/Gui/ApplicationPy.cpp
@@ -534,12 +534,13 @@ PyObject* Application::sActivateWorkbenchHandler(PyObject * /*self*/, PyObject *
     catch (const XERCES_CPP_NAMESPACE_QUALIFIER TranscodingException& e) {
         std::stringstream err;
         char *pMsg = XERCES_CPP_NAMESPACE_QUALIFIER XMLString::transcode(e.getMessage());
-        err << "Transcoding exception raised in activateWorkbench.\n"
+        err << "Transcoding exception in Xerces-c:\n\n"
+            << "Transcoding exception raised in activateWorkbench.\n"
             << "Check if your user configuration file is valid.\n"
             << "  Exception message:"
             << pMsg;
         XERCES_CPP_NAMESPACE_QUALIFIER XMLString::release(&pMsg);
-        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_RuntimeError, "Transcoding exception in Xerces-c: ");
+        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_RuntimeError, err.str().c_str());
         return 0;
     }
     catch (...) {