Saxon

I get the following stack trace:

java -cp 'C:\Program Files\Saxonica\SaxonHE12-2J\saxon-he-12.2.jar' net.sf.saxon.Query -s:.\sample1.xml -q:.\test1.xq
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>java.lang.NullPointerException
        at net.sf.saxon.expr.elab.Elaborator.lambda$elaborateForString$0(Elaborator.java:184)
        at net.sf.saxon.functions.UpperCase$UpperCaseFnElaborator.lambda$elaborateForString$1(UpperCase.java:75)
        at net.sf.saxon.functions.Contains$ContainsFnElaborator.lambda$elaborateForBoolean$0(Contains.java:76)
        at net.sf.saxon.expr.FilterExpression$FilterExprElaborator$SimpleFilteredIterator.next(FilterExpression.java:1389)
        at net.sf.saxon.expr.elab.PullElaborator.lambda$elaborateForPush$0(PullElaborator.java:39)
        at net.sf.saxon.query.XQueryExpression.processQuery(XQueryExpression.java:499)
        at net.sf.saxon.query.XQueryExpression.run(XQueryExpression.java:473)
        at net.sf.saxon.s9api.XQueryEvaluator.run(XQueryEvaluator.java:464)
        at net.sf.saxon.Query.runQuery(Query.java:985)
        at net.sf.saxon.Query.doQuery(Query.java:443)
        at net.sf.saxon.Query.doQuery(Query.java:502)
        at net.sf.saxon.Query.main(Query.java:106)
Fatal error during query: java.lang.NullPointerException:  (no message)

Thanks for reporting it. It's failing in Saxon-HE but not in -EE.

In fact it doesn't crash in -EE even with -opt:0, or when run without a license file.

Although I can reproduce the problem running Saxon-HE 12.2 from the command line, I have built an IntelliJ project over the Saxon-HE source code and the problem does not occur.

Actually, I built this over the current source code which contains bug fixes. And I notice the line numbers in Elaborator.java are slightly different. Looking at the git history, some of the changes are simply to Javadoc. However, one substantive change that affected this module is bug #6022; and this, interestingly, has similar characteristics of failing in HE but not in EE. So I'm suspecting that this might be another manifestation (with very different symptoms) of bug #6022.

Unfortunately, though, if I revert the code change made by that bug, the problem still does not occur.

I checked out the 12_2 tag from the repo, which should be exactly the code we used to build 12.2, and ran this again in IntelliJ: again, no failure.

But then I rebuilt the HE jar files from this source, and ran from the command line, and I get the failure.

So I went back to the current branch, built the HE 12.2 Jar file again, and again I get the failure.

Went back to my IntelliJ HE project. Still no failure. A genuine Heisenbug.

I noticed that from the command line I was running Java 11.0.6, from IntelliJ I was running Java 17. Reconfigured IntelliJ to use 11.0.6. No difference, still no failure.

Now reproduced in the debugger. There was a trivial difference in the way the source document was referenced, which may have resulted in the query running in push mode rather than pull mode.