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Re: NullPointerException

• To: Mike Fitzgerald <mikefz@w...>
• Subject: Re: NullPointerException
• From: Yvonne Aburrow <Y.Aburrow@b...>
• Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:13:32 +0000
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <402B971B.2060508@w...>
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• Reply-to: Yvonne Aburrow <Y.Aburrow@b...>

Thanks Mike

Sorry, this is a red herring as it originally threw the 
NullPointerException when the entity declaration was present.  Here it is:

<!DOCTYPE stylesheet [
	<!ENTITY copy "&#169;">
	<!-- copyright symbol -->
	<!ENTITY nbsp "&#160;">
	<!-- non-breaking space -->
]>

Yvonne

--On 12 February 2004 08:09 -0700 Mike Fitzgerald <mikefz@w...> wrote:

> One untested idea: Firefox' XML parser doesn't like the undefined entity
> (&copy;) on line 15. Perhaps there are others but I didn't see any.
> Options: define the entity in a doctype declaration or use a numeric
> character reference, that is &copy; becomes &#169; or just delete it and
> test. See if that works.
>
> Mike
>
> Yvonne Aburrow wrote:
>
>> Hi, my Apache FOP engine keeps throwing a NullPointerException every
>> time I try to transform an XML file using a particular XSL.  (Files
>> are at <http://people.bath.ac.uk/ccsya/library/> and the offending XSL
>> is <http://people.bath.ac.uk/ccsya/library/libraryguides.xsl>.)  I'm
>> using Java 1.4.2 and have checked it works with a previous XSL.  I
>> tried validating it with the FO DTD offered by RenderX, but it was no
>> help (it threw an error at <xsl:stylesheet>).  I'm using XMLSpy
>> version 5 rel 4.
>>
>> Any help would be much appreciated
>>
>> Yvonne
>>
>> **************************************************************
>> Yvonne Aburrow         Web Developer             01225 38 6022
>> Computing Services   University of Bath   Y.Aburrow@b...
>> http://www.bath.ac.uk/bucs      http://people.bath.ac.uk/ccsya
>>
>>
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Yvonne

**************************************************************
Yvonne Aburrow         Web Developer             01225 38 6022
Computing Services   University of Bath   Y.Aburrow@b...
http://www.bath.ac.uk/bucs       http://people.bath.ac.uk/ccsya

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