Index: src/java/org/apache/fop/layoutmgr/AddLMVisitor.java
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RCS file: /home/cvspublic/xml-fop/src/java/org/apache/fop/layoutmgr/AddLMVisitor.java,v
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -u -r1.24 AddLMVisitor.java
--- src/java/org/apache/fop/layoutmgr/AddLMVisitor.java	26 Dec 2003 22:39:14 -0000	1.24
+++ src/java/org/apache/fop/layoutmgr/AddLMVisitor.java	29 Dec 2003 20:46:58 -0000
@@ -841,12 +841,15 @@
          TableLayoutManager tlm = new TableLayoutManager();
          tlm.setUserAgent(node.getUserAgent());
          tlm.setFObj(node);
-         ArrayList columnLMs = new ArrayList();
-         ListIterator iter = node.getColumns().listIterator();
-         while (iter.hasNext()) {
-             columnLMs.add(getTableColumnLayoutManager((TableColumn)iter.next()));
+         ArrayList columns = node.getColumns();
+         if (columns != null) {
+             ArrayList columnLMs = new ArrayList();
+             ListIterator iter = columns.listIterator();
+             while (iter.hasNext()) {
+                 columnLMs.add(getTableColumnLayoutManager((TableColumn)iter.next()));
+             }
+             tlm.setColumns(columnLMs);
          }
-         tlm.setColumns(columnLMs);
          if (node.getTableHeader() != null) {
              tlm.setTableHeader(getTableBodyLayoutManager(node.getTableHeader()));
          }