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svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=11496

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@@ -12411,3 +12411,10 @@ David  7 Nov 2006
 		cs_scheduler.C
 	lib/
 		miofile.C
+
+David  8 Nov 2006
+    - core client: change XML parser to handle tags of the form <foo />,
+        treating it as <foo/> (i.e. skip the space)
+
+   lib/
+    parse.C

lib/parse.C

@@ -437,14 +437,16 @@ bool XML_PARSER::scan_nonws(int& first_char) {
 }
 
 // we just read a <; read until we find a >,
-// and copy intervening text to buf.
+// and copy intervening text (except spaces) to buf.
 // Return true iff reached EOF
+// TODO: parse attributes too
 //
 bool XML_PARSER::scan_tag(char* buf, int len) {
     int c;
     while (1) {
         c = f->_getc();
         if (c == EOF) return true;
+        if (isspace(c)) continue;
         if (c == '>') {
             *buf = 0;
             return false;