From 05fe67938443b22361d158a5f00443efaa0a85c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rob Harrop <rharrop@vmware.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 16:59:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] [SPR-6004] Fixed NPE in BeanDefinitionParserDelegate when
 using empty namespace as the default

---
 .../beans/factory/xml/BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java         | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/org.springframework.beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java b/org.springframework.beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java
index 33dbfdd61b..193d411ff3 100644
--- a/org.springframework.beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java
+++ b/org.springframework.beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java
@@ -1363,7 +1363,7 @@ public class BeanDefinitionParserDelegate {
 			if (handler != null) {
 				return handler.decorate(node, originalDef, new ParserContext(this.readerContext, this, containingBd));
 			}
-			else if (namespaceUri.startsWith("http://www.springframework.org/")) {
+			else if (namespaceUri != null && namespaceUri.startsWith("http://www.springframework.org/")) {
 				error("Unable to locate Spring NamespaceHandler for XML schema namespace [" + namespaceUri + "]", node);
 			}
 			else {