I could not understand, were you just sending an endElement without a stateElement?
(I can't check the line number right now, I have a newer copy on my machine that hopefully fixes this bug.) arkin Boris Garbuzov wrote: > > String unexistingName = "unexistingName"; > documentHandler.endElement (unexistingName); > > Even if I misuse the API (I should not call this directly?) it should have > failed friendlier than this: > > java.lang.NullPointerException: > at > org.apache.xml.serialize.XMLSerializer.endElement(XMLSerializer.java:307) > > at > org.apache.xml.serialize.XMLSerializer.endElement(XMLSerializer.java:421) > > at > com.keystrokenet.loanproduct.xml.test.Lab.executeTestBody(Lab.java:442) > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Assaf Arkin www.exoffice.com CTO, Exoffice Technologies, Inc. www.exolab.org