From 78f1481f3882695bc72ece3b4a0d46da7610f75c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jaimeagudo <jaimeagudo@users.no.reply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 19:01:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Do not generate an empty string JSON value for an empty
 XML tag

---
 XML.java | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/XML.java b/XML.java
index 23a991906..57c3a5107 100755
--- a/XML.java
+++ b/XML.java
@@ -243,9 +243,11 @@ private static boolean parse(XMLTokener x, JSONObject context,
                     }
                     if (jsonobject.length() > 0) {
                         context.accumulate(tagName, jsonobject);
-                    } else {
-                        context.accumulate(tagName, "");
                     }
+                    // We do not want to consider empty tags
+                    // else {
+                    //     context.accumulate(tagName, "");
+                    // }
                     return false;
 
 // Content, between <...> and </...>
@@ -473,7 +475,7 @@ public static String toString(Object object, String tagName)
             if (object.getClass().isArray()) {
                 object = new JSONArray(object);
             }
-            
+
             if (object instanceof JSONArray) {
                 ja = (JSONArray)object;
                 length = ja.length();
@@ -487,6 +489,6 @@ public static String toString(Object object, String tagName)
         return (tagName == null) ? "\"" + string + "\"" :
             (string.length() == 0) ? "<" + tagName + "/>" :
             "<" + tagName + ">" + string + "</" + tagName + ">";
-            
+
     }
 }

From 20d96f8ec3d06ad0f4d1adfdc29014f2fe6b29d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jaimeagudo <jaimeagudo@users.no.reply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 20:07:28 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update javadoc

---
 XML.java | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/XML.java b/XML.java
index 57c3a5107..01f58e5d5 100755
--- a/XML.java
+++ b/XML.java
@@ -120,6 +120,9 @@ public static void noSpace(String string) throws JSONException {
 
     /**
      * Scan the content following the named tag, attaching it to the context.
+     *
+     * It does NOT generate an empty string JSON value for an empty XML tag.
+     *
      * @param x       The XMLTokener containing the source string.
      * @param context The JSONObject that will include the new material.
      * @param name    The tag name.