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Hi,

I'm trying to serialize a DOM constructed from the following URL which
is subject to change very frequently:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/syndication/fee...fic/rss091.xml

I sometimes receive this error:

java.lang.NullPointerException:
at org.apache.xalan.serialize.WriterToUTF8.write(Writ erToUTF8.java:101)
at org.apache.xalan.serialize.SerializerToXML.startEl ement(SerializerToXML.java,
Compiled Code)
at org.apache.xml.utils.TreeWalker.startNode(TreeWalk er.java,
Compiled Code)
at org.apache.xml.utils.TreeWalker.traverse(TreeWalke r.java, Compiled
Code)
at org.apache.xalan.serialize.SerializerToXML.seriali ze(SerializerToXML.java:2470)
at DynamicPortalSearchProcessor.parseDOM(DynamicPorta lSearchProcessor.java,
Compiled Code)
at DynamicPortalSearchProcessor.processSearchSite(Dyn amicPortalSearchProcessor.java,
Compiled Code)
at DynamicPortalSearchThread.run(DynamicPortalSearchT hread.java,
Compiled Code)

I suspect this is because the XML source is in ISO-8859-1 encoding and
the xalan serializer that i'm using does not support this encoding
it's trying to use UTF8 encoding... Can anyone help? I'm using the
xalan version "j2_2_D11"

Regards,
Guillaume J.