diff --git a/xmloff/source/transform/TransformerBase.cxx b/xmloff/source/transform/TransformerBase.cxx
index d32197ca3dd4..9d7048db0fbd 100644
--- a/xmloff/source/transform/TransformerBase.cxx
+++ b/xmloff/source/transform/TransformerBase.cxx
@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ XMLTransformerBase::XMLTransformerBase( XMLTransformerActionInit *pInit,
     m_pReplaceNamespaceMap( new SvXMLNamespaceMap ),
     m_pElemActions( new XMLTransformerActions( pInit ) ),
     m_pTokenMap( new XMLTransformerTokenMap( pTKMapInit ) ),
+    nElement(0),
     m_xFastAttributes( new sax_fastparser::FastAttributeList( m_xTokenHandler.get(),
         dynamic_cast< sax_fastparser::FastTokenHandlerBase *>( m_xTokenHandler.get() ) ) )
 {