The xerces 1.0.4 serializers are not properly initialized until one of the as...Handler methods is invoked. In your case call serializer.asContentHandler() before serializing. This looks like a bug to me.
It's a feature introduced to enable reuse of the serializers. The fault is that Serializer is both an interface and an implementation and this behavior where asDOMSerializer() is not called it supported. In the next version of the serializers the interface will be separate and application developers will be required to call asDOMSerializer() on the serializer to serialize a document, thereby always initializing it. arkin -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Assaf Arkin www.exoffice.com CTO, Exoffice Technologies, Inc. www.exolab.org
