From 20fe0ffaf6c8965beccad519c644df2321f5006c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@apache.org>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 07:24:40 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] properly handle factory configuration exception

based on patch by Kui Liu
---
 src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/Diagnostics.java | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/Diagnostics.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/Diagnostics.java
index 4ad57a063..e4a243bb2 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/Diagnostics.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/Diagnostics.java
@@ -195,8 +195,12 @@ public final class Diagnostics {
      * @return parser or null for trouble
      */
     private static SAXParser getSAXParser() {
-        SAXParserFactory saxParserFactory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
-        if (saxParserFactory == null) {
+        SAXParserFactory saxParserFactory = null;
+        try {
+            saxParserFactory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            // ignore
+            ignoreThrowable(e);
             return null;
         }
         SAXParser saxParser = null;