URGENT jsp report wont open in 9i builder - REP-0002 or REP-6102

Question

Hi
I cant open a jsp file that has been opening fine all week. I was adding to the report when the display went very strange so I reverted - then it crashed and I got a REP-6102 failed to start the XML parser (its not an xml report). Now I either get REP-0002 Unable to retrieve a message string or REP-6102 as above. Tried converting to RDF and get REP-6102.
Im only building locally at the moment.
Log file produced this in the reports\log directory:
Warning: Error reading transaction-log file (/C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/Local Settings/Temp/docroot/3000/persistence/transaction.state) for recovery: premature end of file
Forced or abrupt (crash etc) server shutdown detected, starting recovery process...
Recovery completed, 0 connections committed and 0 rolled back...
Oracle9iAS (9.0.2.0.0) Containers for J2EE initialized
Im using windows 2000 Prof, Reports Builder 9.0.2.0.1 on an 8.1.7 Database.
REPORTS_CLASSPATH = C:\OraHome1\reports\jlib\rwbuilder.jar;C:\OraHome1\reports\jlib\rwrun.jar;C:\OraHome1\jlib\zrclient.jar;C:\OraHome1\j2ee\home\oc4j.jar;C:\OraHome1\j2ee\home\lib\ojsp.jar;C:\OraHome1\reports\jlib\xrpdsolap.jar;
Please can somebody help.

Answer 1

When you create a .jsp report, Reports inserts an XML report definition in the <rw:objects> tag. This is why it appears to need an XML parser before it can open up a .jsp file.
You could try just taking this XML and saving it as a .xml file (ie: remove everything from the .jsp except the content of the <rw:objects> tag). This would at least tell you if the problem is in the XML of the JSP section of the file.
If you can open up the contents of the xml report then you could try opening the .jsp file up in JDeveloper and see if there are any inconsistencies in the file - ie: unmatched tags.
If you get an "unable to start the XML parser" error trying to open up the xml file, try creating a simple report and saving and loading to XML.