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| -rw-r--r-- | libs/pbd/xml++.cc | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libs/pbd/xml++.cc b/libs/pbd/xml++.cc index 95fb370b04..598a7684b3 100644 --- a/libs/pbd/xml++.cc +++ b/libs/pbd/xml++.cc @@ -85,13 +85,17 @@ XMLTree::read_internal(bool validate) _doc = 0; } + /* Calling this prevents libxml2 from treating whitespace as active + nodes. It needs to be called before we create a parser context. + */ + xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0); + /* create a parser context */ xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt = xmlNewParserCtxt(); if (ctxt == NULL) { return false; } - xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0); /* parse the file, activating the DTD validation option */ if (validate) { _doc = xmlCtxtReadFile(ctxt, _filename.c_str(), NULL, XML_PARSE_DTDVALID); |