[XERCESJ-1390] NullPointerException while parsing document with XHTML entity resolver. "Random changes" fix the error in the document.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Invalid
• Component/s: DOM (Level 3 Core)
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Yonas Jongkind
• Created: 31/Jul/09 15:23
• Updated: 02/Dec/09 04:43
• Resolved: 02/Dec/09 04:38

Description

See the attached test to reproduce the error. This is the output that I get from the test.

If I remove the XhtmlEntityResolver the test will pass. Also, the only difference between the two XML files in the test is the addition of a comment.

Java Home: C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6
Java Version: 1.6.0_14
Parsing Works
Parsing Fails
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.DeferredDocumentImpl.setChunkIndex(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.DeferredDocumentImpl.appendChild(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractDOMParser.characters(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.characters(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
at TestXercesParse.parse(TestXercesParse.java:41)
at TestXercesParse.main(TestXercesParse.java:24)