I'm getting a null pointer exception when trying to add a footnote to a 
specific aspect of my page. I'm using version 0.94 of FOP. I am including the 
stack trace I receive for the exception. I'm also including a skimmed down 
version of my fo file. If this does not provide enough context, I can paste in 
the whole thing. Thanks for any help.

Sep 27, 2007 1:59:37 PM org.apache.fop.cli.Main startFOP
SEVERE: Exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.transformTo(InputHandler.java:168)
        at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.renderTo(InputHandler.java:115)
        at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.startFOP(Main.java:166)
        at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.main(Main.java:197)

---------

java.lang.NullPointerException at 
org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.PageBreakingAlgorithm.handleFootnotes
(PageBreakingAlgorithm.java:248)
at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.PageBreakingAlgorithm.handleBox
(PageBreakingAlgorithm.java:220)
at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.BreakingAlgorithm.findBreakingPoints
(BreakingAlgorithm.java:462)
at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.BreakingAlgorithm.findBreakingPoints
(BreakingAlgorithm.java:403)
at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.AbstractBreaker.doLayout(AbstractBreaker.java:338)
at 
org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.BlockContainerLayoutManager.getNextKnuthElementsAbsolu
te(BlockContainerLayoutManager.java:509)
at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.BlockContainerLayoutManager.getNextKnuthElements
(BlockContainerLayoutManager.java:195)
at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.BlockStackingLayoutManager.getNextKnuthElements
(BlockStackingLayoutManager.java:284)
at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.BlockLayoutManager.getNextKnuthElements
(BlockLayoutManager.java:113)
at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.FlowLayoutManager.getNextKnuthElements
(FlowLayoutManager.java:106)
at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.PageBreaker.getNextKnuthElements
(PageBreaker.java:145)
at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.AbstractBreaker.getNextBlockList
(AbstractBreaker.java:551)
at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.PageBreaker.getNextBlockList(PageBreaker.java:137)
at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.AbstractBreaker.doLayout(AbstractBreaker.java:301)
at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.AbstractBreaker.doLayout(AbstractBreaker.java:263)
at org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.PageSequenceLayoutManager.activateLayout
(PageSequenceLayoutManager.java:144)
at org.apache.fop.area.AreaTreeHandler.endPageSequence
(AreaTreeHandler.java:233)
at org.apache.fop.fo.pagination.PageSequence.endOfNode(PageSequence.java:145)
at org.apache.fop.fo.FOTreeBuilder$MainFOHandler.endElement
(FOTreeBuilder.java:378)
at org.apache.fop.fo.FOTreeBuilder.endElement(FOTreeBuilder.java:194)
at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerIdentityImpl.endElement
(TransformerIdentityImpl.java:1101)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown 
Source)
at 
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher
.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown 
Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerIdentityImpl.transform
(TransformerIdentityImpl.java:484)
at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.transformTo(InputHandler.java:165)
at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.renderTo(InputHandler.java:115)
at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.startFOP(Main.java:166)
at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.main(Main.java:197)



<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body" >
 <fo:block break-after="page">
  <fo:block-container absolute-position="absolute" border-style="solid"
   top="0in" left="0in" width="3in" height="2.75in" font-size="10pt">
   <fo:block >
    <fo:table width="100%" table-layout="fixed">
     <fo:table-header>
      <fo:table-row background-color="silver">
       <fo:table-cell number-columns-spanned="3">
        <fo:block>Title of table which should span columns</fo:block>
       </fo:table-cell>
      </fo:table-row>
      <fo:table-row background-color="black" color="white">
       cell tags omitted...
      </fo:table-row>
     </fo:table-header>
     <fo:table-body>
      <fo:table-row>
       cell tags omitted...
      </fo:table-row>
     </fo:table-body>
    </fo:table>
   </fo:block>
   <fo:block>hello
<!-- exception doesn't occur when below footnote is removed -->
    <fo:footnote>
     <fo:inline baseline-shift="super" font-size="75%">(1)</fo:inline>
     <fo:footnote-body start-indent="0pt" end-indent="0pt" text-indent="0pt" 
last-line-end-indent="0pt" text-align="start">
      <fo:block background-color="antiquewhite" end-indent="5mm">
       <fo:inline baseline-shift="super" font-size="75%">(1)</fo:inline>
       This is a footnote text.
      </fo:block>
  </fo:footnote-body>
 </fo:footnote>
 </fo:block>
 </fo:block-container>
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