[JXPATH-187] Possible endless loop in Namespace Resolving

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 1.3
• Fix Version/s: 1.4
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Stefan Albrecht
• Created: 08/Dec/15 15:21
• Updated: 09/Dec/15 09:50
• Resolved: 09/Dec/15 09:50

Description

When dealing with XML documents - org.w3c.dom - and when having a hierarchy of relative contexts, then, when trying to resolve the namespace prefix for some namespace uri, an endless loop is triggered.
This happens if

• the namespace is not programatically registered with JXPathContext
• the context used to resolve the namespace
  • has a parent context
  • and neither the context nor the parent have the namespace defined within the document

I attached a patch for org/apache/commons/jxpath/ri/NamespaceResolver.java
as well as a tar ball with a junit test and test files

Issue Links

• duplicates: JXPATH-140 Error in loop of NamespaceResolver