Luigi De Masi created CAMEL-14155: ------------------------------------- Summary: xpath throws NPE if body is null when camel-saxon is used as JAXP implementation Key: CAMEL-14155 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-14155 Project: Camel Issue Type: Bug Components: came-core Reporter: Luigi De Masi
despite [XPath API spec| https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/javax/xml/xpath/XPathExpression.html#evaluate-java.lang.Object-javax.xml.namespace.QName-] states: {quote}If a null value is provided for item, an empty document will be used for the context\{quote} saxon, starting from 9.6, they decided to ignore it and throw NPE if the node is null, from [saxon javadoc|https://www.saxonica.com/html/documentation9.8/javadoc/net/sf/saxon/xpath/XPathExpressionImpl.html#evaluate-java.lang.Object-javax.xml.namespace.QName-]: {quote} Contrary to the interface specification, Saxon does not supply an empty document when the value is null. This is because XPath 2.0 allows the context item to be "absent" (null). So Saxon executes the XPath expression with the context item undefined.\{quote} -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)