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Klemens Dickbauer commented on TIKA-2919: ----------------------------------------- Thanx for the quick response! Embarassing for me - i just typed the rough design of subclassing the handler for some extra file writing. I double-checked if i really had called the super class startElement and endElement methods and really, in this scenario with the two divs there was an error on my side, i didn't call the second startElement method because it had the same name as its parent. Fixed it and the NPE vanished. Sorry for the premature report. Will close now. > NullPointerException when parsing PDF with OCR and ToXMLContentHandler > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: TIKA-2919 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-2919 > Project: Tika > Issue Type: Bug > Components: handler, ocr > Affects Versions: 1.21 > Reporter: Klemens Dickbauer > Priority: Major > > When parsing a pdf document the handler creates a structure (and fires > appropriate SAX exents) that each page is wrapped into two <div> elements. > The outer one of these has no parent element, so when the subsequent > endElement method is called for "html", a NPE occurs when > currentElement.parent is referenced: > {code:java} > java class ToXMLContentHandler: > public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName) throws > SAXException { > if (this.inStartElement) { > this.write(" />"); > this.inStartElement = false; > } else { > this.write("</"); > this.write(qName); > this.write('>'); > } > this.namespaces.clear(); > this.currentElement = this.currentElement.parent; > } > {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.14#76016)