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'rendering context' in my earlier reply. If you give me some more
information on the environment you are trying this we might find a
solution.

I have a hunch that in the context you use your lib there seems to be no
page data in the background, therefore the select part of the CONTENT
object to retrieve the flexform XML from the records ends up with nothing.
To find out if that's the case you could just set a fixed id of a page
where you know you have a news plugin usong the pidInList property of the
CONTENT object. Another way would be to set debugData at different points
within the CONTENT object, then call your typoscriptObjectPath and check
what data you've got there.

> I think I'm gonna owe you a virtual beer after all this!  Please let me
> know if you have any ideas.

Hehe, no worries, you're very welcome. I can imagine taking a deep draught
;)

Cheers, Torsten