It looks like you're using Xerces for the xpath stuff instead of the built-in Jaxen xpath impl.
Look at the API for Branch/Element, and you'll see that it directly supports XPath using the integrated Jaxen impl. -bob On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Shekhar Srivastava wrote: > Hi All, > > I am new to DOM4J and I am getting the following exception in an existing system > that I am supporting. We are using JDK 1.4.1. > > NodeIterator nl = XPathAPI.selectNodeIterator( doc, xql ); > while ( ( n = nl.nextNode () ) != null ) > { > //...some processing > } > > the xql passed is "//docinfo" and when I serialised the document passed, I find that > the node is present. Also this problem is occuring only for some xml files. Most of > the files are getting through without any error. > > java.lang.NullPointerException > at org.apache.xml.dtm.ref.dom2dtm.DOM2DTM.nextNode(DOM2DTM.java:347) > at > org.apache.xml.dtm.ref.DTMDefaultBaseTraversers$IndexedDTMAxisTraverser.getNextIndexed(DTMDefaultBaseTraversers.java:576) > at > org.apache.xml.dtm.ref.DTMDefaultBaseTraversers$DescendantTraverser.next(DTMDefaultBaseTraversers.java:742) > at org.apache.xpath.axes.DescendantIterator.nextNode(DescendantIterator.java:274) > at org.apache.xpath.axes.LocPathIterator.runTo(LocPathIterator.java:802) > at org.apache.xml.dtm.ref.DTMNodeList.<init>(DTMNodeList.java:114) > at org.apache.xpath.objects.XNodeSet.nodelist(XNodeSet.java:384) > at org.apache.xpath.XPathAPI.selectNodeList(XPathAPI.java:205) > at org.apache.xpath.XPathAPI.selectNodeList(XPathAPI.java:182) > at > com.lexisNexis.ftk.foundation.utils.FTKConfigAccessor.executeXpath(FTKConfigAccessor.java:1563) > > > regards, > Shekhar Srivastava, > > ӆ+^隊X'u > {Nh&ZxnjZkzǧ[6Qϭ"ujwBӢ^r薈"zyzbg֦z{Zh+-zf)ڶ*'mig&'ehǫx%]n#bqall.ǟwXb?v > -- Bob McWhirter [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Werken Company http://werken.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user