I18nMessage - null parameter values causes NPE
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         Key: COCOON-1785
         URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COCOON-1785
     Project: Cocoon
        Type: Bug
  Components: Blocks: Forms  
    Versions: 2.1.8, 2.1.9-dev (current SVN)    
    Reporter: Eric Meyer
 Attachments: I18nMessageNPE.txt

Putting a null in a parameter value causes an NPE when creating the SAX events

java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.cocoon.forms.util.I18nMessage.toSAX(I18nMessage.java:128)
        at 
org.apache.cocoon.forms.validation.ValidationError.generateSaxFragment(ValidationError.java:85)
        at 
org.apache.cocoon.forms.formmodel.Field.generateItemSaxFragment(Field.java:453)
        at 
org.apache.cocoon.forms.formmodel.AbstractWidget.generateSaxFragment(AbstractWidget.java:498)
        at 
org.apache.cocoon.forms.generation.JXMacrosHelper.generateWidget(JXMacrosHelper.java:292)

Note: this NPE then causes the Ajax transformer to go wonky for all users in 
all sessions. I'm still digging into that one.

I am attaching a patch (license granted to ASF)  that allows null parameter 
values (using String.valueOf(parameters[i]) so that nulls are turned into 
"null".

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