NullPointerException in HtmlCleaner.makeTree

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#190 NullPointerException in HtmlCleaner.makeTree

Milestone: v2.22

Status: closed-fixed

Owner: nobody

Labels: None

Priority: 5

Updated: 2017-06-14

Created: 2017-06-14

Creator: Michael Ryan

Private: No

Starting in the 2.19 release, some malformed documents with an xmlns can cause a NullPointerException in HtmlCleaner.makeTree().

Minimal test case:

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htmlcleaner-NullPointerException.html

Discussion

Michael Ryan - 2017-06-14

Oops, sourceforge ate part of the markup. Here's the minimal test case:

<html xmlns="x"><ul><a>

And the stacktrace:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.htmlcleaner.HtmlCleaner.makeTree(HtmlCleaner.java:1097)
at org.htmlcleaner.HtmlTokenizer.addToken(HtmlTokenizer.java:103)
at org.htmlcleaner.HtmlTokenizer.tagStart(HtmlTokenizer.java:546)
at org.htmlcleaner.HtmlTokenizer.start(HtmlTokenizer.java:480)
at org.htmlcleaner.HtmlCleaner.clean(HtmlCleaner.java:461)
at org.htmlcleaner.HtmlCleaner.clean(HtmlCleaner.java:371)

Last edit: Michael Ryan 2017-06-14

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Scott Wilson - 2017-06-14

status: open --> closed-fixed
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Scott Wilson - 2017-06-14

Thanks Michael - I've added a null guard to fix this. Its in trunk now.

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