Hi,
Please review the following fix in JDK9 at your convenience: Bug : https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8167281 Webrev : http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jdv/8167281/webrev.00/ Issue : IIONodeList.item(index) and IIOMetadataNode. getElementsByTagName(tag) are not following specification properly. Root cause : . IIOMetadataNode .getElementsByTagName(tag) returns empty list for special input value "*" and IIONodeList.item(index)throws IndexOutOfBoundsException for index equal to length of NodeList. Solution : IIOMetadataNode .getElementsByTagName(tag) should match all tags for special input value "*" and IIONodeList.item(index) should return null if input index is equals to length of NodeList. Thanks, Jay