after updating pbf plugin, a nominatim search fails

[xteejyx@…]

After updating pbf to the newest version (after a bugfix), JOSM crashes when searching nominatim for an area around a place to download data for.

Repository Root: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn
Build-Date: 2014-09-29 22:12:08
Last Changed Author: Don-vip
Revision: 7588
Repository UUID: 0c6e7542-c601-0410-84e7-c038aed88b3b
Relative URL: ^/trunk
URL: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk
Last Changed Date: 2014-09-29 23:52:43 +0200 (Mon, 29 Sep 2014)
Last Changed Rev: 7588

Identification: JOSM/1.5 (7588 en_GB) Windows 7 64-Bit
Memory Usage: 54 MB / 247 MB (17 MB allocated, but free)
Java version: 1.7.0_67, Oracle Corporation, Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
VM arguments: [-Djava.security.policy=file:C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\lib\security\javaws.policy, -DtrustProxy=true, -Djnlpx.home=<java.home>\bin, -Djnlpx.origFilenameArg=C:\Users\Teej\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache\6.0\56\1ee8cfb8-78c1c64e, -Djnlpx.remove=false, -Djava.util.Arrays.useLegacyMergeSort=true, -Djnlpx.splashport=57159, -Djnlp.application.href=https://josm.openstreetmap.de/download/josm.jnlp, -Djnlpx.jvm=<java.home>\bin\javaw.exe, -Djnlpx.vmargs=LURqYXZhLnV0aWwuQXJyYXlzLnVzZUxlZ2FjeU1lcmdlU29ydD10cnVlAC1Eam5scC5hcHBsaWNhdGlvbi5ocmVmPWh0dHBzOi8vam9zbS5vcGVuc3RyZWV0bWFwLmRlL2Rvd25sb2FkL2pvc20uam5scAA=]

Plugins:
- continuosDownload (1412331234)
- mapdust (30502)
- notes (v0.9.4)
- pbf (30726)
- wikipedia (30629)

Last errors/warnings:
- E: org.openstreetmap.josm.io.OsmTransferException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 1; Content is not allowed in prolog.. Cause: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Content is not allowed in prolog.
- E: org.openstreetmap.josm.io.OsmTransferException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 1; Content is not allowed in prolog.. Cause: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Content is not allowed in prolog.

org.openstreetmap.josm.io.OsmTransferException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 1; Content is not allowed in prolog.
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.download.PlaceSelection$NameQueryTask.realRun(PlaceSelection.java:385)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.PleaseWaitRunnable.doRealRun(PleaseWaitRunnable.java:82)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.PleaseWaitRunnable.run(PleaseWaitRunnable.java:150)
	at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 1; Content is not allowed in prolog.
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$PrologDriver.next(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.download.PlaceSelection$NameQueryTask.realRun(PlaceSelection.java:378)
	... 7 more

[Don-vip]

Closed as duplicate of #5934.