post up your XML and XSLT pages and we'll have a look see. I ran into this
myself with 1.6dev but can't recall offhand what the problem was.

- donald

On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Michael Engelhart wrote:

> Can anyone shed some light on this problem for me?  Are my PI's invalid or
> something?
> 
> This gets thrown when accessing a document that worked fine in 1.5.
> 
> java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1
>     at java.lang.String.substring(Compiled Code)
>     at org.apache.cocoon.Utils.getPIPseudoAttributes(Compiled Code)
>     at 
> org.apache.cocoon.formatter.FormatterFactory.getType(FormatterFactory.java:8
> 2)
>     at 
> org.apache.cocoon.formatter.FormatterFactory.getFormatter(FormatterFactory.j
> ava:70)
>     at org.apache.cocoon.Engine.handle(Compiled Code)
>     at org.apache.cocoon.Cocoon.service(Cocoon.java:145)
>     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:865)
>     at 
> org.apache.tomcat.core.ServiceInvocationHandler.method(ServletWrapper.java:6
> 26)
>     at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.handleInvocation(Compiled Code)
>     at 
> org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:378)
>     at org.apache.tomcat.core.Context.handleRequest(Context.java:644)
>     at 
> org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:440)
>     at 
> org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnection(HttpC
> onnectionHandler.java:144)
>     at 
> org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpConnectionThread.run(TcpEndpoint.java:304)
>     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java)
> 
> 
>