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Bug #2465

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XQuery Update: moving an attribute

Added by Michael Kay over 8 years ago. Updated over 8 years ago.

Status:

Closed

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Michael Kay

Category:

XQuery Update

Sprint/Milestone:

9.6.0.8

Start date:

2015-10-06

Due date:

% Done:

100%

Estimated time:

Legacy ID:

Applies to branch:

9.6

Fix Committed on Branch:

9.6

Fixed in Maintenance Release:

9.6.0.8

Platforms:

Description

Leo Studer writes on talk@x-query.com:

I am using Oxygen 17.0 with Saxon EE 9.6.0.5 as the xQuery Update processor.

I want to move an attribute one level deeper.

In the example I want to move att="att” from to

<b/>

Here my code:

delete node doc("xml.xml")//@att,

insert node doc("xml.xml")//@att into doc("xml.xml")//b

Each of these two statements work correctly alone but when I try both together I get java.lang.NullPointerException.

Can anyone explain what happens here?

Thanks in advance

Leo

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Updated by Michael Kay over 8 years ago

Status changed from New to In Progress

The problem is caused by the introduction of the class NodeName in Saxon 9.6 to pass the name of a node around, and in particular by the subclass NameOfNode which represents a NodeName by means of a reference to a Node having that name. (This design was introduced in order to reduce NamePool accesses by ensuring that once a fingerprint was allocated to a node name, it would become available to many other nodes having the same name). The design fails when the Node becomes mutable, leading to a NameOfNode object carrying a reference to a node that can be renamed or deleted. The solution is to ensure that entries in the pending update list never contain node names in this form.

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