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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:34:04 +0100
From: Bekkers Yves <yves.bekkers@irisa.fr>
Organization: Irisa - Rennes
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This is a bug report for JDOM Beta 7, 

The following xml document is sucessfully parsed by SAXBuilder.build()
method,
using standard xerces compiler :

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
  <prenom>Yves</prenom>

while the following document, where the name of the root element has
been
francised using eaccute :

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
  <prénom>Yves</prénom>


makes SAXBuilder crash with the following message :

org.jdom.JDOMException: Error in building: null
        at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:306)
        at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:617)
        at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:599)
        at TryCompileJDom.<init>(TryCompileJDom.java:13)
        at TryCompileJDom.main(TryCompileJDom.java:23)
Root cause: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:917)
        at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:287)
        at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:617)
        at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:599)
        at TryCompileJDom.<init>(TryCompileJDom.java:13)
        at TryCompileJDom.main(TryCompileJDom.java:23)

Yves bekkers

bekkers@irisa.fr
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