Claudia,
It could also be that your included XSLT file did not exist or was empty
for some reason. I have tried to allow these conditions without <assert>
faults by making sure that empty readers were supported.
Sincerely,
Steven J. Hathaway
Xalan Documentation Project
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem running applications in debug mode. I try to process a
> xslt file which includes another xslt file. In release mode everything
> works fine. But in debug mode the application crashes with the message:
>
> "Debug Assertion Failed!
> ...
> Expression: invalid null pointer"
>
> This happens when I call
>
> theXalanTransformer.transform(*parsedXML, *xslIn, std::cout);
>
> My environment:
> - VS2010
> - binary packages of Xerces 3.1.1 and Xalan 1.11.0
>
> My code:
>
> //! namespace clarifications
> XALAN_USING_XALAN(XSLException);
> XALAN_USING_XALAN(XalanTransformer);
> XALAN_USING_XALAN(XalanDOMString);
> XALAN_USING_XALAN(XSLTInputSource);
> XALAN_USING_XALAN(XSLTResultTarget);
> XALAN_USING_XALAN(XalanParsedSource);
> XALAN_USING_XERCES(XMLPlatformUtils);
>
> try{
> XMLPlatformUtils::Initialize();
> XalanTransformer::initialize();
> } catch(const XSLException& xslException) {
> XalanTransformer::terminate();
> XMLPlatformUtils::Terminate();
> std::cout << ((xslException.getMessage()).c_str());
> }
>
> XalanTransformer theXalanTransformer;
> const char* reportFilename = "C:\\tmp\\reportTest\\input.xml";
>
> //! transform XML->HTML
> const XalanParsedSource* parsedXML = 0;
> const XSLTInputSource* xmlIn =
> new XSLTInputSource(reportFilename);
> try{
> int result = theXalanTransformer.parseSource(*xmlIn,parsedXML);
> if (result !=0) {
> std::cout << "Error occured! " <<
> theXalanTransformer.getLastError() << std::endl;
> }
> } catch (const XSLException& xslException) {
> delete xmlIn;
> xmlIn = 0;
> std::cout << "Error occured! " << theXalanTransformer.getLastError()
> << std::endl;
> }
>
> const char* xsltFileWithPath ="C:\\tmp\\reportTest\\foo2.xsl";
> XSLTInputSource* xslIn = new XSLTInputSource(xsltFileWithPath);
>
> //! first page containing basic report
> try {
> int result = theXalanTransformer.transform(*parsedXML, *xslIn,
> std::cout);
> if (result != 0) {
> delete xslIn;
> xslIn = 0;
> std::cout << "Error occured! " <<
> theXalanTransformer.getLastError() << std::endl;
> }
> } catch (const XSLException &xslException) {
> delete xslIn;
> xslIn = 0;
> std::cout << "Error occured! " << theXalanTransformer.getLastError()
> << std::endl;
> }
> delete xslIn;
> xslIn = 0;
> delete xmlIn;
> xmlIn = 0;
>
>
> Is this a known issue? How can I avoid this assertion failure?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Kind regards
> Claudia
>
>
