#182 NullPtrException using DOMSource

[Michael Kay]

A NullPointerException may occur in the NamePool when
taking input from a DOM Source. I haven't been able to
determine the exact conditions, a necessary but not
sufficient condition is that the source document has a
default namespace declaration.

The fix is to change the code at line 302 of
net.sf.saxon.dom.DOMWrapper to:

            if (node.getNamespaceURI() != null) {
                String prefix = node.getPrefix();
                if (prefix == null) {
                    prefix = "";
                }
                namecode =

docWrapper.namePool.allocate(prefix,

node.getNamespaceURI(),

node.getLocalName());
return namecode;
}

Michael Kay

[Milan Trninic]

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I haven't analyzed this enough to be sure, but it seems to me
that the following is sufficient:

1. The element is not prefixed
2. There is no prefix bound to the default namespace
3. Default namespace is declared

Like this:
<SomeElement xmlns="http://www.site.com">
</SomeElement>

The following doesn't cause the exception:

<abc:SomeElement xmlns="http://www.site.com" xmlns:abc="http://www.site.com">
</abc:SomeElement>

Milan