Don't create std::string from nullptr

...which violates the ctor's preconditions, so is UB.  Also, the "XML Help
Document Type Definition" appendix of
<http://documentation.openoffice.org/online_help/OOo2HelpAuthoring.pdf> states
that "branch" and "id" attributes are #REQUIRED for the "bookmark" element.

(There's probably further cases in the surrounding code where a std::string is
created from a potentially null argument, which would benefit from similar
fixes.)

Change-Id: I414576d13de784de1290951bcdd5e3ecb51f9cb8
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/55735
Tested-by: Jenkins <ci@libreoffice.org>
Reviewed-by: Stephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/helpcompiler/source/HelpCompiler.cxx b/helpcompiler/source/HelpCompiler.cxx
index 1013c8d8e81a..8cfdcecfa539 100644
--- a/helpcompiler/source/HelpCompiler.cxx
+++ b/helpcompiler/source/HelpCompiler.cxx
@@ -325,10 +325,18 @@ void myparser::traverse( xmlNodePtr parentNode )
         else if (!strcmp(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(test->name), "bookmark"))
         {
             xmlChar *branchxml = xmlGetProp(test, reinterpret_cast<const xmlChar*>("branch"));
-            xmlChar *idxml = xmlGetProp(test, reinterpret_cast<const xmlChar*>("id"));
+            if (branchxml == nullptr) {
+                throw HelpProcessingException(
+                    HelpProcessingErrorClass::XmlParsing, "bookmark lacks branch attribute");
+            }
             std::string branch(reinterpret_cast<char*>(branchxml));
-            std::string anchor(reinterpret_cast<char*>(idxml));
             xmlFree (branchxml);
+            xmlChar *idxml = xmlGetProp(test, reinterpret_cast<const xmlChar*>("id"));
+            if (idxml == nullptr) {
+                throw HelpProcessingException(
+                    HelpProcessingErrorClass::XmlParsing, "bookmark lacks id attribute");
+            }
+            std::string anchor(reinterpret_cast<char*>(idxml));
             xmlFree (idxml);
 
             if (branch.compare(0, 3, "hid") == 0)