1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/xml.cc b/src/xml.cc
index 72dfe1bb..206cb5f0 100644
--- a/src/xml.cc
+++ b/src/xml.cc
@@ -62,9 +62,14 @@ XMLNode::string_node (string name)
 	xmlpp::Node* node = xml_node (name);
 	
         xmlpp::Node::NodeList c = node->get_children ();
-	if (c.size() != 1) {
+
+	if (c.size() > 1) {
 		throw XMLError ("unexpected content in XML node");
 	}
+
+	if (c.empty ()) {
+		return "";
+	}
 	
         xmlpp::ContentNode const * v = dynamic_cast<xmlpp::ContentNode const *> (c.front());
 	if (!v) {