xerces-j 1.0.4 bug?

[Greg Matthews]

Dear all,   I just downloaded xerces-j 1.0.4 and wondered if this might be a bug?   under 1.0.3, the following worked.      OutputFormat outputFormat = new OutputFormat();    outputFormat.setOmitXMLDeclaration( true );    outputFormat.setIndenting( false );    outputFormat.setLineSeparator( "" );   org.apache.xml.serialize.XMLSerializer serializer = new XMLSerializer( System.out, outputFormat );     serializer.serialize( <someElement> );     i get the following error under 1.0.4   java.lang.IllegalStateException: SER002 No writer supplied for serializer         at org.apache.xml.serialize.BaseMarkupSerializer.serialize(BaseMarkupSerializer.java:389)   seems like a protected variable in BaseMarkupSerializer, _printer, is not initialised unless prepare() gets called.   i'm calling asDocumentHandler() just so prepare() gets called although i ignore the return value.   Am i using the serializer correctly?   thanks, Greg.