com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java

com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:198)

and another exception :

Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: www.springframework.org

at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:178)

To resolve this problem you must

reeplace http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-4.0.xsd on your spring configuration file by

 http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd and you'll be fine .you must  modify the context import as well.