[XALANJ-2376] TransformerFactory.newTransformer(source) returns null instead throwing an exception

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.7
• Component/s: transformation
• Environment: According to the spec newTransformer() should not return null. That the case with 2.6.0 but not with 2.7.0
• Xalan info: PatchAvailable
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jean-Frederic Clere
• Created: 10/Apr/07 16:17
• Updated: 28/Feb/14 11:24

Description

The following code:
+++
System.out.println("TransformerFactory: " + tf);
Transformer t = tf.newTransformer(source);
System.out.println("Transformer: " + t + " Source: " + source);
t.transform(source, doc);
} catch (Exception ex)

{ ex.printStackTrace(); }

+++
throws a null java.lang.NullPointerException with 2.7.0 (at t.transform(source, doc) and a org.xml.sax.SAXParseException (at Transformer t = tf.newTransformer(source) in 2.6.0

The problem is located in src/org/apache/xalan/processor/TransformerFactoryImpl.java m_errorListener is wrongly initialized to DefaultErrorHandler(false)