[7u40] Request for phase 2 approval (JAXP): 8021148 : Regression in SAXParserImpl in 7u40 b34 (NPE)

[huizhe wang]

Hi,

I'd like to request approval to backport the following fix to jdk7u40. 
This is to allow applications such as NetBeans to continue using the 
internal JAXP parser.

The bug:
http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8021148

Webrev:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~joehw/7u40/8021148/webrev/

Review:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2013-July/019168.html

JDK8 Changeset:
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jaxp/rev/251ca1e2ccd3

Thanks,
Joe