Allow getDOM to return an empty Document if the outcome isn't set. Then

applications can build Outcomes themselves without having to create
their own DOMImplementations. Fixes #184

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/c2kernel/persistency/outcome/Outcome.java b/src/main/java/com/c2kernel/persistency/outcome/Outcome.java
index 9ad84b2..08fd75b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/c2kernel/persistency/outcome/Outcome.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/c2kernel/persistency/outcome/Outcome.java
@@ -226,7 +226,10 @@ public class Outcome implements C2KLocalObject {
     	if (dom == null && mData != null)

         try {

             synchronized (parser) {

-                dom = parser.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(mData)));

+            	if (mData!=null)

+            		dom = parser.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(mData)));

+            	else

+            		dom = parser.newDocument();

             }

         } catch (Exception e) {

             Logger.error(e);