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Article ID: 269511 - Last Review: December 5, 2003 - Revision: 3.0
FIX: IXMLDOMNode::selectSingleNode Returns Invalid Pointer
This article was previously published under Q269511
SYMPTOMS
The
IXMLDOMNode::selectSingleNode method returns the first node selected by a given XPath query.
selectSingleNode should return NULL if no node is found. However, in the 2.0 version of the XML parser, an uninitialized pointer may be returned. This is only a problem with XML applications written in Visual C++ that use the
#import directive.
RESOLUTION
This problem has been fixed in Microsoft XML (MSXML) version 2.5 or later. MSXML 2.5 is shipped with Microsoft Windows 2000 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP1 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
This problem was corrected in MSXML 2.5.
MORE INFORMATION
When you import the MSXML type library in Visual C++, the wrapper implementation created for
selectSingleNode looks like this (in the
Msxml.tli file):
inline IXMLDOMNodePtr IXMLDOMNode::selectSingleNode ( _bstr_t queryString )
{
struct IXMLDOMNode * _result;
HRESULT _hr = raw_selectSingleNode(queryString, &_result);
if (FAILED(_hr)) _com_issue_errorex(_hr, this, __uuidof(this));
return IXMLDOMNodePtr(_result, false);
}
If the query does not find the node then
raw_selectSingleNode returns S_FALSE. The variable
_result is not properly assigned to NULL, so the smart pointer that is returned to the node is invalid.
REFERENCES
For additional information, click the article number below
to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
269238Â
(http://kbalertz.com/Feedback.aspx?kbNumber=269238/EN-US/
)
INFO: Version List of the Microsoft XML Parser
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft XML Parser 2.0
- Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Enterprise Edition
- Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Visual C++, 32-bit Learning Edition 6.0
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