Here is the situation: We add a <use> element to an existing DOM tree with: Element e = document.createElementNS(SVGDOMImplementation.SVG_NAMESPACE_URI, "use"); e.setAttributeNS(null, "x", "10" ); e.setAttributeNS(null, "y", "20" ); e.setAttributeNS(XLinkSupport.XLINK_NAMESPACE_URI, "href", "#MyRef" ); When we try to transcode the DOM, Batik dumps the stacktrace below. java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.batik.bridge.URIResolver.getNode(URIResolver.java:86) at org.apache.batik.bridge.URIResolver.getElement(URIResolver.java:62) at org.apache.batik.bridge.BridgeContext.getReferencedElement(BridgeContext.jav a:277) at org.apache.batik.bridge.SVGUseElementBridge.createGraphicsNode(SVGUseElement Bridge.java:64) at org.apache.batik.bridge.GVTBuilder.buildGraphicsNode(GVTBuilder.java:170) at org.apache.batik.bridge.GVTBuilder.buildComposite(GVTBuilder.java:136) at org.apache.batik.bridge.GVTBuilder.buildGraphicsNode(GVTBuilder.java:176) at org.apache.batik.bridge.GVTBuilder.buildComposite(GVTBuilder.java:136) at org.apache.batik.bridge.GVTBuilder.buildGraphicsNode(GVTBuilder.java:176) at org.apache.batik.bridge.GVTBuilder.buildComposite(GVTBuilder.java:136) at org.apache.batik.bridge.GVTBuilder.buildGraphicsNode(GVTBuilder.java:176) at org.apache.batik.bridge.GVTBuilder.buildComposite(GVTBuilder.java:136) at org.apache.batik.bridge.GVTBuilder.build(GVTBuilder.java:69) at org.apache.batik.transcoder.image.ImageTranscoder.transcode(ImageTranscoder. java:155) at org.apache.batik.transcoder.XMLAbstractTranscoder.transcode(XMLAbstractTrans coder.java:126) at com.codesense.financial.iserver.test.TestRunner.savePNG(TestRunner.java:230) at com.codesense.financial.iserver.test.TestRunner.runTest(TestRunner.java:131) at com.codesense.financial.iserver.test.TestRunner.main(TestRunner.java:326) Looking at URIResolver.getNode() ... if (uri.startsWith("#")) { return document.getElementById(uri.substring(1)); } if (documentURI == null) documentURI = document.getURL(); if (documentURI.equals(uri)) { return document; } ... and SVGOMDocument.getURL() return (url == null) ? null : url.toString(); It´s clear that there´s a bug in getNode(), but is that really the problem? When we serializes the DOM to a textfile (org.apache.batik.dom.util.DOMUtilities.writeDocument) the "href" attribute of the <use> have a missing namespace prefix. Thoughts anyone? This is a showstopper right now for us.. Regards, Andreas Bielk /********************************************************** C o d e S e n s e A B Marinens väg 30, SE-136 40 Haninge, Sweden Office: +46 (0)8 - 707 32 30 GSM: +46 (0)70 - 532 92 01 http://www.codesense.com ***********************************************************/ (PGP public key available at: search.keyserver.net) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]