diff -Nru jts-1.14/jts-app/src/main/java/com/vividsolutions/jtstest/util/io/LineNumberSAXBuilder.java jts-1.14.jdom/jts-app/src/main/java/com/vividsolutions/jtstest/util/io/LineNumberSAXBuilder.java
--- jts-1.14/jts-app/src/main/java/com/vividsolutions/jtstest/util/io/LineNumberSAXBuilder.java	2016-02-27 07:14:01.000000000 +0100
+++ jts-1.14.jdom/jts-app/src/main/java/com/vividsolutions/jtstest/util/io/LineNumberSAXBuilder.java	2016-02-27 07:01:22.705411443 +0100
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import org.jdom.Element;
 import org.jdom.Namespace;
-import org.jdom.input.DefaultJDOMFactory;
-import org.jdom.input.JDOMFactory;
+import org.jdom.DefaultJDOMFactory;
+import org.jdom.JDOMFactory;
 import org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder;
 import org.jdom.input.SAXHandler;
 import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
@@ -30,9 +30,16 @@
 public class LineNumberSAXBuilder extends SAXBuilder
 {
 	protected SAXHandler createContentHandler()
-            throws IOException
 	{
-		return new MySAXHandler(new MyFactory());
+	        MySAXHandler handler = null;
+	        
+	        try {
+	                handler = new MySAXHandler(new MyFactory());
+	        } catch (IOException ioe) {
+	                System.out.println(ioe.toString());
+	        }
+	        
+		return handler;
 	}
 
 	private class MyFactory extends DefaultJDOMFactory