Actually the table is absolutly positioned near the top of the page and
there are several other absolutly positioned block-container
elements (with empty blocks currently) on the page as well. This is also the
only footnote on the page. I tried adding the space-after attribute to
several different elements around the table and that didn't seem to make a
difference.

On 9/28/07, Iskren Pushkarov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> I've had similar exceptions regarding PageBreakingAlgorithm.java in
> specific
> layout situation, not only in 0.94 but also in 0.93.
>
> I can guess your table (the code above footnote) appears near the bottom
> of
> the page. Is it right?
> Do you have some footnotes one after another?
> When I had 4, 5, 6 footnotes in a group, this always results in
> "PageBreakingAlgorithm exception".
>
> As some kind of workaround I suggest you to add some space-after (or
> space-before) attributes to one or more elements that precede the trouble
> footnote.
> Try with different values (10, 20, 40, 50pt..), the idea is to move the
> footnote(s) to the next page.
>
> Regards,
> Iskren
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark
> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 9:28 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Null Pointer Exception with Footnotes
>
> 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.getNextKnuthElementsAbs
> olu
> 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$MainFOHandler.endElement
> (FOTreeBuilder.java:378)
> at org.apache.fop.fo.FOTreeBuilder.endElement(FOTreeBuilder.java:194)
> at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerIdentityImpl.endElement
> (TransformerIdentityImpl.java:1101)
> at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source)
> at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown
> Source)
> at
>
> org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatc
> her
> .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>
> closing tags...
>
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