Title: xform repeat and java beans: null pointer exception

Hi,

There might be a simple solution to this problem, but I have not been able to find it.  Here is the problem:

I have a Java Bean that returns an array of objects.  I try to display the list using the xf:repeat in an xml file.  Here's the bean, xml and sitemap entries:

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Cocoon version 2.1 latest CVS files
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Notes: I have all log levels set to DEBUG.  I haven't found any useful info listed in the log file.

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start.xml
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<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<document xmlns:xf="http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/xmlform/2002">

<xf:form id="form-feedback" view="start" action="">
<xf:caption>Dummy</xf:caption>
 <xf:output ref="/dummys[2]"/>   <!-- this works fine -->

 <xf:repeat nodeset="/dummys">  <!-- this generates an exception.  Please see exception below -->
    <xf:output ref="."/>
  </xf:repeat>

</xf:form>
</document>

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Bean
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public class RuleSetHelperBean
{
        public RuleSetHelperBean()
        {
                dummys[0] = new String("blah1");
                dummys[1] = new String("blah2");
        }

        public String[] getDummys()
        {
                return dummys;
        }

        public String getDummys(int idx)
        {
                return dummys[idx];
        }

        protected String dummys[] = new String[2];
}

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Sitemap entries (relevant to this problem)
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....
      <map:action name="RuleSetAction" src="" logger="xmlform.sitemap.action.ruleset"/>
.....
      <map:match pattern="ruleset*">
        <map:act type="RuleSetAction">

          <!-- XMLForm parameters for the AbstractXMLFormAction -->
          <map:parameter name="xmlform-validator-schema-ns" value="http://www.ascc.net/xml/schematron"/>
          <map:parameter name="xmlform-validator-schema" value="schematron/ruleset-xmlform-sch-report.xml"/>
          <map:parameter name="xmlform-id" value="form-feedback"/>
          <map:parameter name="xmlform-scope" value="session"/>
          <map:parameter name="xmlform-model" value="com.test.RuleSetHelperBean"/>

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Browser exception
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An error occurredorg.apache.cocoon.ProcessingExceptionFailed to execute pipeline.org.apache.cocoon.ProcessingException: Failed to execute pipeline.: java.lang.NullPointerExceptionOriginal exception : java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerIdentityImpl.flushStartDoc(TransformerIdentityImpl.java:888) at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerIdentityImpl.startPrefixMapping(TransformerIdentityImpl.java:931) at org.apache.cocoon.xml.dom.DOMStreamer$NamespaceNormalizingDOMStreamer.startNode(DOMStreamer.java:442) at org.apache.cocoon.xml.dom.DOMStreamer$NamespaceNormalizingDOMStreamer.stream(DOMStreamer.java:259) at org.apache.cocoon.xml.dom.DOMStreamer.stream(DOMStreamer.java:173) at org.apache.cocoon.xml.XMLUtils.serializeNode(XMLUtils.java:230) at org.apache.cocoon.xml.XMLUtils.serializeNodeToXML(XMLUtils.java:181) at org.apache.cocoon.transformation.AbstractSAXTransformer.endRecording(AbstractSAXTransformer.java:496) at org.apache.cocoon.transformation.XMLFormTransformer.endTransformingElement(XMLFormTransformer.java:965) at org.apache.cocoon.transformation.AbstractSAXTransformer.endElement(AbstractSAXTransformer.java:355) at org.apache.cocoon.components.sax.XMLTeePipe.endElement(XMLTeePipe.java:124) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(AbstractSAXParser.java:579) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNamespaceBinder.handleEndElement(XMLNamespaceBinder.java:897) at

Thanks!
Dan Barber


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