[XALANJ-2154] [XSLTC] Parser: NullPointerException when _locator is null

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.7
• Component/s: XSLTC
• Xalan info: PatchAvailable
• Fix priority: fp2
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Andreas Hartmann
• Reviewer: Santiago Pericas-Geertsen
• Created: 22/Jun/05 18:15
• Updated: 19/Aug/05 10:50
• Resolved: 16/Jul/05 01:51

Description

The exception is caused by the following change (it works with Xalan 2.6.0):

http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-xalan/java/src/org/apache/xalan/xsltc/compiler/Parser.java?r1=1.64&r2=1.65&diff_format=h

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RCS file: /home/cvspublic/xml-xalan/java/src/org/apache/xalan/xsltc/compiler/Parser.java,v
retrieving revision 1.64
retrieving revision 1.65
diff -u -r1.64 -r1.65
— Parser.java 2004/02/23 10:29:35 1.64
+++ Parser.java 2004/05/21 20:29:28 1.65
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@

• limitations under the License.
  */
  /*

• * $Id: Parser.java,v 1.64 2004/02/23 10:29:35 aruny Exp $
  + * $Id: Parser.java,v 1.65 2004/05/21 20:29:28 santiagopg Exp $
  */

package org.apache.xalan.xsltc.compiler;
@@ -965,7 +965,10 @@
}
}
}

• if (node == null) node = new LiteralElement();
  + if (node == null) { + node = new LiteralElement(); + node.setLineNumber(_locator.getLineNumber()); + }

  }
  if ((node != null) && (node instanceof LiteralElement)) {
  ((LiteralElement)node).setQName(qname);

+++++++++++++++++++++++++

Unfortunately I'm not familiar enough with the code to know if a "_locator != null" check would be sufficient.

Stack trace:

org.apache.xalan.xsltc.TransletException: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.xalan.xsltc.dom.SAXImpl.shallowCopy(SAXImpl.java:1735)
at org.apache.xalan.xsltc.dom.DOMAdapter.shallowCopy(DOMAdapter.java:314)
at page2xslt.applyTemplates()
at page2xslt.applyTemplates()
at page2xslt.applyTemplates()
at page2xslt.applyTemplates()
at page2xslt.applyTemplates()
at page2xslt.transform()
at org.apache.xalan.xsltc.runtime.AbstractTranslet.transform(AbstractTranslet.java:592)