From f18217ffc0821fc1a3425a1407408853d04ad8b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Scott Cantor <cantor.2@osu.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:52:21 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/CPPXT-50

---
 xmltooling/AbstractXMLObject.cpp | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/xmltooling/AbstractXMLObject.cpp b/xmltooling/AbstractXMLObject.cpp
index 0ebd079..58efeda 100644
--- a/xmltooling/AbstractXMLObject.cpp
+++ b/xmltooling/AbstractXMLObject.cpp
@@ -244,6 +244,8 @@ DateTime* AbstractXMLObject::prepareForAssignment(DateTime* oldValue, const XMLC
 {
     delete oldValue;
     releaseThisandParentDOM();
+    if (!newValue || !*newValue)
+        return NULL;
     DateTime* ret = new DateTime(newValue);
     if (duration)
         ret->parseDuration();
-- 
2.1.4