MEL null safe Xpath works in Studio but not Cloudhub

Question

The following expression works fine locally in Studio, but when deployed to Cloudhub it fails with the below error:

Its basically just a simple path expression that uses the null safe ? operator before invoke the .text method. Why doesn't this work in Cloudhub?

    <set-variable variableName="country"
        value="#[xpath('//ns1:root/ns1:Country').?text]"
        doc:name="Set Country" />

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Message : Execution of the expression "xpath('//ns1:root/ns1:Country').?text" failed. (org.mule.api.expression.ExpressionRuntimeException). Message payload is of type: DefaultDocument

Code : MULE_ERROR--2

Exception stack is: 1. null (java.lang.NullPointerException) org.mule.mvel2.optimizers.impl.refl.ReflectiveAccessorOptimizer:363 (null) 2. [Error: null pointer:

Answer 1

Older post but I hope the solution is useful.

Use it this way man:

<set-variable variableName="country" value="#[?xpath('//ns1:root/ns1:Country').text]" doc:name="Set Country" />