VelocityViewServlet : Error processing a template for path '/news/article.vm'

com.nature.components.service.article.InvalidXmlException: Empty element: name
	at com.nature.components.service.article.ArticlingArticle.getRequiredText(ArticlingArticle.java:686)
	at com.nature.components.service.article.ArticlingArticle.getNatureLinks(ArticlingArticle.java:1197)
	at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor605.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.PropertyExecutor.execute(PropertyExecutor.java:142)
	at org.apache.velocity.util.introspection.UberspectImpl$VelGetterImpl.invoke(UberspectImpl.java:533)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTIdentifier.execute(ASTIdentifier.java:198)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.execute(ASTReference.java:252)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.value(ASTReference.java:493)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTExpression.value(ASTExpression.java:71)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTSetDirective.render(ASTSetDirective.java:142)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.SimpleNode.render(SimpleNode.java:336)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.Parse.render(Parse.java:260)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTDirective.render(ASTDirective.java:175)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTBlock.render(ASTBlock.java:72)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTIfStatement.render(ASTIfStatement.java:87)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTBlock.render(ASTBlock.java:72)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.VelocimacroProxy.render(VelocimacroProxy.java:212)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.RuntimeMacro.render(RuntimeMacro.java:247)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTDirective.render(ASTDirective.java:175)
	at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.SimpleNode.render(SimpleNode.java:336)
	at org.apache.velocity.Template.merge(Template.java:328)
	at org.apache.velocity.Template.merge(Template.java:235)
	at org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.VelocityLayoutServlet.mergeTemplate(VelocityLayoutServlet.java:224)
	at org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.VelocityViewServlet.doRequest(VelocityViewServlet.java:555)
	at org.apache.velocity.tools.view.servlet.VelocityViewServlet.doGet(VelocityViewServlet.java:509)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:707)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:502)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:389)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:181)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:765)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:417)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Dispatcher.forward(Dispatcher.java:334)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Dispatcher.forward(Dispatcher.java:126)
	at org.codehaus.waffle.view.DefaultViewDispatcher.dispatch(DefaultViewDispatcher.java:58)
	at org.codehaus.waffle.action.DefaultActionMethodResponseHandler.handle(DefaultActionMethodResponseHandler.java:48)
	at org.codehaus.waffle.servlet.WaffleServlet.service(WaffleServlet.java:216)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:502)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1157)
	at com.nature.xb3.servlet.filter.RequestAccessLogFilterXB3.doFilter(RequestAccessLogFilterXB3.java:127)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1148)
	at npg.ncode.servlet.filter.ResponseWrapperFilter.doFilter(ResponseWrapperFilter.java:31)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1148)
	at com.nature.xb3.servlet.filter.RemoveAccessCheckFilter.doFilter(RemoveAccessCheckFilter.java:78)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1148)
	at npg.ncode.servlet.filter.LanguageFilter.doFilter(LanguageFilter.java:109)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1148)
	at npg.ncode.servlet.filter.CDNFixFilter.doFilter(CDNFixFilter.java:50)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1148)
	at com.nature.xb3.servlet.filter.ReferralFilter.doFilter(ReferralFilter.java:72)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1148)
	at com.nature.xb3.servlet.filter.RequestHeaderFilter.doFilter(RequestHeaderFilter.java:48)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1148)
	at npg.ncode.servlet.filter.ResponseHeaderFilter.doFilter(ResponseHeaderFilter.java:62)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1148)
	at com.nature.xb3.servlet.filter.SessionTrackingFilter.doFilter(SessionTrackingFilter.java:121)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1148)
	at com.nature.xb3.servlet.filter.LoginFilter.doFilter(LoginFilter.java:66)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1148)
	at com.nature.xb3.servlet.filter.RequestWrapperFilterXb3.doFilter(RequestWrapperFilterXb3.java:52)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1148)
	at org.codehaus.waffle.context.WaffleRequestFilter.doFilter(WaffleRequestFilter.java:42)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1148)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:387)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:181)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:765)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:417)
	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:534)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(HttpConnection.java:864)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:539)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:212)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:404)
	at org.mortbay.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:409)
	at org.mortbay.thread.QueuedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:520)