You get a NullPointerException because you do not initialize the CSSEngine.
In Batik this is done in org.apache.batik.bridge.BridgeContext.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Armhold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 5:28 PM
> To: Batik Users
> Subject: NullPointerException from CSSStyleDeclaration [Batik 1.5b4]
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I'd like to be able to determine what styles are in effect for a given
> element in an SVGDocument.  I'm trying to use
> ViewCSS.getComputedStyle(Element, pseudoElt) for this.
> 
> First, I'm not sure this is the correct approach, and second, I'm
> getting NullPointerException errors on just about any method used on
> the resulting CSSStyleDeclaration.  A small example demonstrating this
> problem can be found at:
> 
>    http://erudycja.rutgers.edu/~armhold/cssbug/CSSBug.java
> 
> along with a simple SVG file that tickles it:
> 
>    http://erudycja.rutgers.edu/~armhold/cssbug/cssbug.svg
> 
> Here's a small synopsis of what I'm trying to do:
> 
>      NodeList nodeList = doc.getElementsByTagName("tspan");
>      for (int i = 0; i < nodeList.getLength(); i++) {
>        Element node = (Element) nodeList.item(i);
> 
>        CSSStyleDeclaration decl =
>       ((ViewCSS) root).getComputedStyle(node, null);
> 
>        if (decl != null) {
>       for (int j = 0; j < decl.getLength(); j++) { // this results in 
> NullPointerException
>         //    decl.getPropertyCSSValue() and decl.getCssText() also fail
>         String s = decl.item(j);
>         System.out.println("style item: " + s);
>       }
>        }
>      }
> 
> 
> I'm getting the following not very helpful stack trace:
> 
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
>          at 
> org.apache.batik.css.dom.CSSOMComputedStyle.getLength(Unknown Source)
>          at CSSBug.main(CSSBug.java:40)
> 
> I'm using Batik 1.5b4 and JDK 1.4 under Redhat Linux 7.2.
> 
> Any help greatly appreciated.
> 
> --
> George Armhold
> Rutgers University
> eLearning Grant, DCIS
> 
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