From de9070dba1ca56c15e70280002fd51ecd358dd57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mfranz <mfranz>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:45:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] better standard compliance: allow empty top level tags
 (<PropertyList>)

---
 simgear/props/props_io.cxx | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/simgear/props/props_io.cxx b/simgear/props/props_io.cxx
index b89f1d46..187f5660 100644
--- a/simgear/props/props_io.cxx
+++ b/simgear/props/props_io.cxx
@@ -279,6 +279,8 @@ PropsVisitor::endElement (const char * name)
       ret = st.node->setStringValue(_data.c_str());
     } else if (st.type == "unspecified") {
       ret = st.node->setUnspecifiedValue(_data.c_str());
+    } else if (_level == 1) {
+      ret = true;		// empty <PropertyList>
     } else {
       string message = "Unrecognized data type '";
       message += st.type;