[PDFBOX-2412] Loading XFDF document fails with ClassCastException

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.7, 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.8, 2.0.0
• Component/s: Parsing
• Labels: FDF
• Environment: MacOS X 10.9.5, Java 1.7.0_65
• Assignee: Andreas Lehmkühler
• Reporter: Thomas Krammer
• Created: 08/Oct/14 13:42
• Updated: 13/Dec/14 14:15
• Resolved: 02/Nov/14 13:43

Description

When loading the the this XFDF Document

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xfdf xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/" xml:space="preserve">
<fields>
<field name="Z2S1"><value>Erblasser</value></field>
</fields>
</xfdf>

using FDFDocument.loadXFDF(new File("ttt.xfdf"));

I get the following exception:

java.lang.ClassCastException: com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.DeferredTextImpl cannot be cast to org.w3c.dom.Element
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.fdf.FDFDictionary.<init>(FDFDictionary.java:105)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.fdf.FDFCatalog.<init>(FDFCatalog.java:68)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.fdf.FDFDocument.<init>(FDFDocument.java:101)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.fdf.FDFDocument.loadXFDF(FDFDocument.java:251)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.fdf.FDFDocument.loadXFDF(FDFDocument.java:236)
    ...