Error running Lucene in Action code

[syedfa]

Dear Fellow Java & Lucene developers:

I am a Java developer learning lucene and I am currently going through the
book Lucene in Action.  At present, I am trying to run the sample code for
indexing an xml document using sax.  My code has been slightly updated for
Lucene version 2.2:

/*
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 * and open the template in the editor.
 */

package lucenexml;


import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;

import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.Attributes;

import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;


import org.apache.lucene.document.Document;
import org.apache.lucene.document.Field;

/**
 *
 * @author fayyaz
 */
public class SAXXMLHandler extends DefaultHandler implements
DocumentHandler{

    private StringBuffer elementBuffer=new StringBuffer();
    private HashMap attributeMap;
    
    private Document doc;
    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        // TODO code application logic here
        SAXXMLHandler handler=new SAXXMLHandler();
        Document doc=handler.getDocument(new FileInputStream(new
File(args[0])));
        System.out.println(doc);
    }
    
    public Document getDocument(InputStream is) throws
DocumentHandlerException{
        
        SAXParserFactory spf=SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
        
        try{
            SAXParser parser=spf.newSAXParser();
            parser.parse(is, this);
             
        }
        catch (IOException e){
            throw new DocumentHandlerException("Cannot parse XML document",
e);
        }
        catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
            throw new DocumentHandlerException("Cannot parse XML document",
e);
        }
        catch (SAXException e){
            throw new DocumentHandlerException("Cannot parse XML document",
e);
        }
        return doc;
    }
    
    public void startDocument(){
        doc=new Document();
    }
    
    public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName,
Attributes atts) throws SAXException{
        
        elementBuffer.setLength(0);
        attributeMap.clear();
        if(atts.getLength()>0){
            attributeMap=new HashMap();
            for(int i=0; i<atts.getLength(); i++){
                attributeMap.put(atts.getQName(i), atts.getValue(i));
            }
        }
    }
    
    public void characters(char[] text, int start, int length){
        elementBuffer.append(text, start, length);
    }
    
    public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName)
throws SAXException{
        if(qName.equals("address-book")){
            return;
        }
        
        else if(qName.equals("contact")){
            Iterator iter=attributeMap.keySet().iterator();
            while(iter.hasNext()){
                String attName=(String)iter.next();
                String attValue=(String)attributeMap.get(attName);
                doc.add(new Field(qName, elementBuffer.toString(),
Field.Store.YES,Field.Index.NO));
            }
        }
    }
}


However, although the code compiles, I get the following runtime error when
I pass the file addressbook.xml (which is used in the book) as a runtime
argument:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at lucenexml.SAXXMLHandler.startElement(SAXXMLHandler.java:81)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(Unknown
Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.startElement(Unknown
Source)
        at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unknown
Source)
        at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$ContentDispatcher.scanRootElementHook(Unknown
Source)
        at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$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.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown
Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
        at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:198)
        at lucenexml.SAXXMLHandler.getDocument(SAXXMLHandler.java:59)
        at lucenexml.SAXXMLHandler.main(SAXXMLHandler.java:49)
Java Result: 1

What am I doing wrong?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
Sincerely;
Fayyaz

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