[jdom-interest] why can't I sort this list?

[John L. Webber - Jentro AG]

Hi Paul,

Can you provide the stack trace of the exception? What does your XML
look like? Are any user elements missing a name element, or do any name
elements have no text?

Regards,

John

Paul Phillips wrote:
> 
> I am sure I am doing something really stupid here, but...
> 
> I have a list that I have obtained reading in an xml file using jdom. I can
> read from and write to this file.  I just can't sort it - I get a null
> pointer exception that I can't figure out...
> 
> The xml file is simple.
> The root element is <users>
> There are several <user> children.
> Each <user> child has one <name> element.

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