Hi, I'd an XML stream received from an OpenOffice Writer Document and was passeed to the Xerces Parser. For some specific context, the following exception is thrown. java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1194) Can you please revert back whether this is a problem with the OpenOffice XML doc Stream or with Xerces. Thanks and Regards Rajasekaran Iyanu rajiyanu@in.ibm.com