Xerces-j regression: NullPointerException in nextMatchingElementAfter

[Sam Ruby <ru...@us.ibm.com>]

stack traceback:

   java.lang.NullPointerException
      at org.apache.xerces.dom.DeepNodeListImpl.nextMatchingElementAfter(Unknown Source)
      at org.apache.xerces.dom.DeepNodeListImpl.item(Unknown Source)
      at org.apache.xerces.dom.DeepNodeListImpl.getLength(Unknown Source)
      at testcase.main(testcase.java:12)
   Exception in thread "main"

testcase.java:

   import javax.xml.parsers.*;
   import org.w3c.dom.*;

   public class testcase {

       public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
           DocumentBuilderFactory dFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
           DocumentBuilder dBuilder = dFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
           Document document = dBuilder.parse(new java.io.File(args[0]));
           Element element = document.getDocumentElement();
           NodeList nodelist = element.getElementsByTagName("element");
           if (nodelist != null) System.out.println(nodelist.getLength());
       }

   }

testdata.xml:

   <document><element/></document>

I've isolated the problem to the commit that occurred at

   Fri Aug 10 01:18:16 2001 UTC by lehors

- Sam Ruby

Re: Xerces-j regression: NullPointerException in nextMatchingElementAfter

[Arnaud Le Hors <le...@us.ibm.com>]

I introduced that in my changes to the DOM last week, it's now fixed. I
apology but none of the tests I had exhibited that bug. I now have one
that does.
-- 
Arnaud  Le Hors - IBM, XML Standards Strategy Group / W3C AC Rep.

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Re: Xerces-j regression: NullPointerException in nextMatchingElementAfter

[Arnaud Le Hors <le...@us.ibm.com>]

I introduced that in my changes to the DOM last week, it's now fixed. I
apology but none of the tests I had exhibited that bug. I now have one
that does.
-- 
Arnaud  Le Hors - IBM, XML Standards Strategy Group / W3C AC Rep.