Dear cocooners, Problem: 1. In the definition of a named block, for: <servlet:context mount-path="/foo" context-path="blockcontext:/foo/"/>
This tells the cocoon servlet that a block "foo" is mounted on "foo" in the webapp. 2. sitemap.xmap An empty matcher like in the cocoon sample: <map:match pattern=""> <map:read src="welcome.html" mime-type="text/html"/> </map:match> 3. call localhost/mywebapp/foo or, the root of the block. (it is configured correctly, all the rest works). EVENT: exception: For named blocks java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 0 at java.lang.String.charAt(String.java:687) at org.apache.cocoon.sitemap.node.MatchNode.invoke(MatchNode.java:89) Without having it investigated in extenso, it seems that when blocks are named, so not mounted as 'root block', that there is a problem with <excerpt> String testValue = resolvedValue == null ? null : resolvedValue.toString(); if (testValue == null) { testValue = invocation.getRequestURI(); if (testValue.charAt(0) == '/') { testValue = testValue.substring(1); } } </excerpt> The value is null. By the way, localhost/mywebapp/foo/ nicely produces the expected welcome page. Anyone knows this problem? Kind regards, Jos -- The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. -- Gilbert K. Chesterson