From aec55ef95a9da53bede28d51cee7d86cbd701d8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sterling Hughes <sterling@php.net>
Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 21:13:29 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] properly detect blank nodes

---
 ext/simplexml/simplexml.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ext/simplexml/simplexml.c b/ext/simplexml/simplexml.c
index 8d19513129a..c1b719814d9 100644
--- a/ext/simplexml/simplexml.c
+++ b/ext/simplexml/simplexml.c
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ _node_as_zval(php_sxe_object *sxe, xmlNodePtr node, zval *value)
 	char *contents;
 
 	contents = xmlNodeListGetString(sxe->document, node->xmlChildrenNode, 1);
-	if (contents) {
+	if (!xmlIsBlankNode(node->xmlChildrenNode) && contents) {
 		ZVAL_STRING(value, contents, 1);
 		xmlFree(contents);
 	} else {