Testing libxslt-1.0.17, Windows 2000, VC++6 (SP5) I get a crash from the following stylesheet using the element-available function. <?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform' xmlns:saxon="http://icl.com/saxon" extension-element-prefixes="saxon" version="1.0"> <xsl:output method="text"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:text> saxon:preview .... </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="element-available('saxon:preview')"/> <xsl:text> saxon:jump .... </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="element-available('saxon:jump')"/> <xsl:text> preview .... </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="element-available('preview')"/> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> The crash occurs in libxslt\functions.c:xsltElementAvailableFunction() where xmlSearchNS() returns NULL and the following line assumes a valid xmlNsPtr and tries to access the structure. I've attached a diff file that adds a test for NULL being returned from xmlSearchNS(). The stylesheet then works returns the result I'd expect in this case, but I'm not sure if there are any other consequences that I haven't noticed with the rest of the function. Thanks, Richard
libxslt_element_available.diff