Tomcat fails to start with XML parsing error after upgrading Spring

Issue

• After upgrading the Spring libraries, Tomcat fails to start with error:

  03-Apr-2019 **:**:**.234 SEVERE [main] org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.warning Parse warning at line [5] column [41]
  03-Apr-2019 **:**:**.248 SEVERE [main] org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.error Parse error at line [5] column [41]
  org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId: jar:file:/Install/path/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib/spring-web-4.3.23.RELEASE.jar!/META-INF/web-fragment.xml; lineNumber: 5; columnNumber: 41; cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'web-fragment'.
  at  ...