RE: NullPointerException in org.apache.xalan.xpath.xml.FormatterT oXML .init()

["Schoenberg, Lewis" <le...@hq.ileaf.com>]

Hi Scott.

Mea culpa.  In fact, unknown to me, another part of our application had been
explicitly, and incorrectly, setting the file.encoding property to "utf-8",
so it wasn't VM differences that were at fault at all.  I only discovered
this after a lot of discussion here this morning about the best approach to
coming up with a workaround.  In fact, WJView's file.encoding is "Cp1252",
just like JView's.  So the only real problem with Xalan was that it wasn't
gracefully handling unexpected file.encoding settings.  So please do not add
"UTF-8" to the encoding table on our account.  My apologies for any
confusion this might have caused. 

-Lewis

P.S.  I wasn't aware of the mailing list.  Thanks for the pointer. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Boag/CAM/Lotus [mailto:Scott_Boag@lotus.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 8:02 AM
> To: Schoenberg, Lewis
> Cc: xalan-dev@xml.apache.org
> Subject: Re: NullPointerException in
> org.apache.xalan.xpath.xml.FormatterToXML .init()
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Lewis.  Yes, you should definitely send me a note direct, 
> or post on the
> xalan-dev list (see http://xml.apache.org/mail.html if you 
> are not already
> signed up).  We are struggling with support right now, and I 
> don't get a
> chance to review the AlphaWorks discussion as often as I would like.
> 
> Ugh... VM differences with encoding strike again.
> 
> > 1. The key "UTF-8" needs to be added to the s_revhash table, and
> 
> I will do this, but what worries me is what if the 
> file.encoding System
> property returns something like ISO-8859-3??  What system are 
> they using?
> 
> > 2. getMimeEncoding() should be made to always return either "UTF-8"
> > or "UTF-16", even if convertJava2MimeEncoding() returns null.
> 
> Yep, it's supposed to, but I guess I missed.  I changed:
> 
>           if(null != jencoding)
>             encoding = jencoding;
> 
> to:
> 
>           encoding = (null != jencoding) ? jencoding :
> DEFAULT_MIME_ENCODING;
> 
> which should do the trick.
> 
> I cc'd this to the xalan-dev list, which I assume should be 
> OK since you
> already posted on the LotusXSL discussion list on AlphaWorks.
> 
> -scott
>