Publish generates an error in m2mxdom

Publish comes up with a strange response. I've looked for answers, and the bug is reported to have been squashed in 2011b, but I have 2012b and it is still alive and kicking. I have the following code snippet (defining 'publish_test' as publish_test.m before running publish):

>> type publish_test

function publish_test
%%publish test
end

>> publish('publish_test')
  No method 'createTextNode' with matching signature found for class
  'org.apache.xerces.dom.DocumentImpl'.

Error in m2mxdom>createDom (line 53)
newTextNode = dom.createTextNode(matlabVersion.Version);

Error in m2mxdom (line 32)
dom = createDom;

Error in publish (line 143)
[dom,cellBoundaries] = m2mxdom(code);

I get the following output:

No method 'createTextNode' with matching signature found for class
'org.apache.xerces.dom.DocumentImpl'.

Error in m2mxdom>createDom (line 53)
newTextNode = dom.createTextNode(matlabVersion.Version);

Error in m2mxdom (line 32)
dom = createDom;

Error in publish (line 143)
[dom,cellBoundaries] = m2mxdom(code);

Any thoughts or a different bug report?

Thanks.

Doug

Answer 1

[Aniket]

Hi @Douglas Anderson,

This issue happens if you have a third party toolbox installed in a directory named "matlab". You can check that by running below command in the MATLAB command window

v = ver('matlab')

If this returns structure array, rename the directory for the other "matlab" and update your matlabpath accordingly by running below command:

restoredefaultpath;
rehash toolboxcache;
savepath

This should resolve the issue!