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http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24894

NullPointerException with document() in a global xsl:variable

[EMAIL PROTECTED] changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|NullPointerException with   |NullPointerException with
                   |document() in a global      |document() in a global
                   |xsl:variable                |xsl:variable



------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2003-11-21 15:29 -------
Simplifying the expression that uses $externaldoc by moving selection path 
terms to the xsl:variable assignment works around this bug. Therefore, it 
appears to be complexity/depth related.

So, I changed from 

<xsl:variable name="externaldoc" select="document('external.xml')"/>
...
<xsl:sort data-type="number" order="descending" select="count
($externaldoc/fred/harry/[EMAIL PROTECTED]()/@name])")

to

<xsl:variable name="externaldoc" select="document
('external.xml')/fred/harry/john"/>
...
<xsl:sort data-type="number" order="descending" select="count($externaldoc
[EMAIL PROTECTED]()/@name])")

Of course I would have done this anyway for performance reasons once I had 
debugged my transformation ;-)

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