ensure that xmlKeepBlankDefault() is called early in instance-life, from PBD::init()

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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libs/pbd/pbd.cc b/libs/pbd/pbd.cc
index d453468f3c..8b55692e80 100644
--- a/libs/pbd/pbd.cc
+++ b/libs/pbd/pbd.cc
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 #include "pbd/id.h"
 #include "pbd/enumwriter.h"
 #include "pbd/fpu.h"
+#include "pbd/xml++.h"
 
 #ifdef PLATFORM_WINDOWS
 #include <winsock2.h>
@@ -130,6 +131,14 @@ PBD::init ()
 
 	set_debug_options_from_env ();
 
+	/* this call is made by any call to XMLTree::read() and its cousins. It
+	   sets the handling of blank space to match the libxml2 standard,
+	   rather than the libxml1 version. Without this, the behavior is
+	   defined by whoever calls it first.
+	*/
+
+	xmlKeepBlanksDefault (0);
+
 	libpbd_initialized = true;
 	return true;
 }