xerces-j 1.0.4 bug?

[Greg Matthews <gm...@flex.com.au>]

Dear all,

I just downloaded xerces-j 1.0.4 and wondered if this might be a bug?

under 1.0.3, the following worked.

   OutputFormat outputFormat = new OutputFormat();
   outputFormat.setOmitXMLDeclaration( true );
   outputFormat.setIndenting( false );
   outputFormat.setLineSeparator( "" );

  org.apache.xml.serialize.XMLSerializer serializer = new XMLSerializer( System.out, outputFormat );

  serializer.serialize( <someElement> );


i get the following error under 1.0.4

java.lang.IllegalStateException: SER002 No writer supplied for serializer
        at org.apache.xml.serialize.BaseMarkupSerializer.serialize(BaseMarkupSerializer.java:389)

seems like a protected variable in BaseMarkupSerializer, _printer, is not initialised
unless prepare() gets called.

i'm calling asDocumentHandler() just so prepare() gets called although i ignore the
return value.

Am i using the serializer correctly?

thanks,
Greg.