From dc99a2d78500e685aac67796c66429f3e7b53e3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: cantor <cantor@de75baf8-a10c-0410-a50a-987c0e22f00f>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:52:21 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] https://bugs.internet2.edu/jira/browse/CPPXT-50

git-svn-id: https://svn.middleware.georgetown.edu/cpp-xmltooling/branches/REL_1@685 de75baf8-a10c-0410-a50a-987c0e22f00f
---
 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