From 20211609c59a6be2d503f27e4ad0036a329bbcc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ykkrosh <philip@wildfiregames.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:00:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added tolerance for whitespace, to fix assert

This was SVN commit r593.
---
 source/gui/CGUI.cpp | 31 +++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/source/gui/CGUI.cpp b/source/gui/CGUI.cpp
index 800a4c75d6..061b6f99e4 100755
--- a/source/gui/CGUI.cpp
+++ b/source/gui/CGUI.cpp
@@ -1111,24 +1111,27 @@ void CGUI::Xerces_ReadObject(DOMElement *pElement, IGUIObject *pParent)
 		{
 			CStr caption = XMLTranscode( child->getNodeValue() );
 
-			// Text is only okay if it's the first element i.e. <object>caption ... </object>
-			if (i==0)
-			{
-				// Thank you CStr =)
-				caption.Trim(PS_TRIM_BOTH);
+			caption = caption.Trim(PS_TRIM_BOTH);
 
-				try
+			if (caption.Length())
+			{
+				// Text is only okay if it's the first element i.e. <object>caption ... </object>
+				if (i==0)
 				{
-					// Set the setting caption to this
-					object->SetSetting("caption", caption);
-				}
-				catch (...)
-				{
-					// There is no harm if the object didn't have a "caption"
+
+					try
+					{
+						// Set the setting caption to this
+						object->SetSetting("caption", caption);
+					}
+					catch (...)
+					{
+						// There is no harm if the object didn't have a "caption"
+					}
 				}
+				else 
+					debug_warn("Text is only okay if it's the first element i.e. <object>caption ... </object>");
 			}
-			else 
-				debug_warn("Text is only okay if it's the first element i.e. <object>caption ... </object>");
 		}
 	}