Hi,
I am new to this, and I apologise in advance if I am not presenting my problem correctly.
Every time I log in to my local activiti explorer, or access anything in it or even try to deploy something, I get the error "Error Parsing XML" along with the following error log. I have searched through the entire forum but am unable to identify the right solution for my specific issue. I request you to help me at the earliest. 
[INFO] Starting scanner at interval of 10 seconds.  
com.vaadin.event.ListenerMethod$MethodException: Invocation of method valueChange in org.activiti.explorer.ui.task.TaskPage$1 failed.  
   at com.vaadin.event.ListenerMethod.receiveEvent(ListenerMethod.java:530)  
   at com.vaadin.event.EventRouter.fireEvent(EventRouter.java:164)  
   at com.vaadin.ui.AbstractComponent.fireEvent(AbstractComponent.java:1219)  
   at com.vaadin.ui.AbstractField.fireValueChange(AbstractField.java:897)  
   at com.vaadin.ui.AbstractField.setValue(AbstractField.java:529)  
   at com.vaadin.ui.AbstractSelect.setValue(AbstractSelect.java:676)  
   at com.vaadin.ui.AbstractSelect.setValue(AbstractSelect.java:645)  
   at com.vaadin.ui.Table.setValue(Table.java:3572)  
   at com.vaadin.ui.AbstractSelect.select(AbstractSelect.java:1422)  
   at org.activiti.explorer.ui.AbstractTablePage.selectElement(AbstractTablePage.java:81)  
   at org.activiti.explorer.ui.task.TaskPage.initUi(TaskPage.java:70)  
   at org.activiti.explorer.ui.AbstractPage.attach(AbstractPage.java:43)  
   at com.vaadin.ui.AbstractComponent.setParent(AbstractComponent.java:560)  
   at com.vaadin.ui.AbstractComponentContainer.addComponent(AbstractComponentContainer.java:211)  
   at com.vaadin.ui.CssLayout.addComponent(CssLayout.java:95)  
   at org.activiti.explorer.ui.mainlayout.MainLayout.setMainContent(MainLayout.java:58)  
   at org.activiti.explorer.ui.MainWindow.switchView(MainWindow.java:79)  
   at org.activiti.explorer.DefaultViewManager.switchView(DefaultViewManager.java:342)  
   at org.activiti.explorer.DefaultViewManager.showInboxPage(DefaultViewManager.java:172)  
   at org.activiti.explorer.DefaultViewManager.showDefaultPage(DefaultViewManager.java:90)  
   at org.activiti.explorer.ui.login.LoginPage$ActivitiLoginListener.onLogin(LoginPage.java:102)  
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)  
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)  
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)  
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)  
   at com.vaadin.event.ListenerMethod.receiveEvent(ListenerMethod.java:510)  
   at com.vaadin.event.EventRouter.fireEvent(EventRouter.java:164)  
   at com.vaadin.ui.AbstractComponent.fireEvent(AbstractComponent.java:1219)  
   at com.vaadin.ui.LoginForm$2.handleParameters(LoginForm.java:103)  
   at com.vaadin.ui.Window.handleParameters(Window.java:515)  
   at com.vaadin.terminal.gwt.server.AbstractApplicationServlet.service(AbstractApplicationServlet.java:528)  
   at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820)  
   at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:511)  
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1221)  
   at org.activiti.explorer.filter.ExplorerFilter.doFilter(ExplorerFilter.java:44)  
   at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1212)  
   at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:399)  
   at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216)  
   at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:182)  
   at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:766)  
   at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:450)  
   at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:230)  
   at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:114)  
   at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152)  
   at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:326)  
   at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:542)  
   at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.content(HttpConnection.java:945)  
   at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:756)  
   at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:218)  
   at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:404)  
   at org.mortbay.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:410)  
   at org.mortbay.thread.QueuedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:582)  
Caused by: org.activiti.engine.ActivitiException: Error parsing XML  
   at org.activiti.engine.impl.bpmn.parser.BpmnParse.execute(BpmnParse.java:236)  
   at org.activiti.engine.impl.bpmn.deployer.BpmnDeployer.deploy(BpmnDeployer.java:107)  
   at org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.deploy.DeploymentManager.deploy(DeploymentManager.java:50)  
   at org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.deploy.DeploymentManager.resolveProcessDefinition(DeploymentManager.java:115)  
   at org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.deploy.DeploymentManager.findDeployedProcessDefinitionById(DeploymentManager.java:65)  
   at org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.TaskEntity.getTaskDefinition(TaskEntity.java:751)  
   at org.activiti.engine.impl.cmd.GetTaskFormCmd.execute(GetTaskFormCmd.java:50)  
   at org.activiti.engine.impl.cmd.GetTaskFormCmd.execute(GetTaskFormCmd.java:32)  
   at org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.CommandInvoker.execute(CommandInvoker.java:24)  
   at org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.CommandContextInterceptor.execute(CommandContextInterceptor.java:57)  
   at org.activiti.spring.SpringTransactionInterceptor$1.doInTransaction(SpringTransactionInterceptor.java:47)  
   at org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionTemplate.execute(TransactionTemplate.java:131)  
   at org.activiti.spring.SpringTransactionInterceptor.execute(SpringTransactionInterceptor.java:45)  
   at org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.LogInterceptor.execute(LogInterceptor.java:31)  
   at org.activiti.engine.impl.cfg.CommandExecutorImpl.execute(CommandExecutorImpl.java:40)  
   at org.activiti.engine.impl.cfg.CommandExecutorImpl.execute(CommandExecutorImpl.java:35)  
   at org.activiti.engine.impl.FormServiceImpl.getTaskFormData(FormServiceImpl.java:58)  
   at org.activiti.explorer.ui.task.TaskDetailPanel.initTaskForm(TaskDetailPanel.java:300)  
   at org.activiti.explorer.ui.task.TaskDetailPanel.init(TaskDetailPanel.java:118)  
   at org.activiti.explorer.ui.task.TaskDetailPanel.attach(TaskDetailPanel.java:99)  
   at com.vaadin.ui.AbstractComponent.setParent(AbstractComponent.java:560)  
   at com.vaadin.ui.AbstractComponentContainer.addComponent(AbstractComponentContainer.java:211)  
   at com.vaadin.ui.GridLayout.addComponent(GridLayout.java:230)  
   at org.activiti.explorer.ui.AbstractPage.setDetailComponent(AbstractPage.java:155)  
at org.activiti.explorer.ui.task.TaskPage.access$000(TaskPage.java:44)  
   at org.activiti.explorer.ui.task.TaskPage$1.valueChange(TaskPage.java:117)  
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)  
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)  
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)  
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)  
   at com.vaadin.event.ListenerMethod.receiveEvent(ListenerMethod.java:510)  
   … 51 more  
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not validate XML with BPMN 2.0 XSD  
   at org.activiti.bpmn.converter.BpmnXMLConverter.convertToBpmnModel(BpmnXMLConverter.java:262)  
   at org.activiti.engine.impl.bpmn.parser.BpmnParse.execute(BpmnParse.java:185)  
   … 81 more  
Caused by: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 2  
   at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XSConstraints.overlapUPA(Unknown Source)  
   at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XSConstraints.overlapUPA(Unknown Source)  
   at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.models.XSDFACM.checkUniqueParticleAttribution(Unknown Source)  
   at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XSConstraints.fullSchemaChecking(Unknown Source)  
   at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaLoader.loadGrammar(Unknown Source)  
   at org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.XMLSchemaLoader.loadGrammar(Unknown Source)  
   at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.validation.BaseSchemaFactory.newSchema(Unknown Source)  
   at javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory.newSchema(SchemaFactory.java:627)  
   at javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory.newSchema(SchemaFactory.java:659)  
   at org.activiti.bpmn.converter.BpmnXMLConverter.createSchema(BpmnXMLConverter.java:214)  
   at org.activiti.bpmn.converter.BpmnXMLConverter.validateModel(BpmnXMLConverter.java:193)  
   at org.activiti.bpmn.converter.BpmnXMLConverter.convertToBpmnModel(BpmnXMLConverter.java:251)  
   … 82 more