From 753121825d32b34d6e577d34d46019974104b0ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Fowler <adamfowler71@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 19:21:36 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] XML: If text is completely white space don't add a text
 node

Replicating behaviour of Foundation
---
 Sources/AWSSDKSwiftCore/XML.swift | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Sources/AWSSDKSwiftCore/XML.swift b/Sources/AWSSDKSwiftCore/XML.swift
index 82a0d8bfa..64e0938a5 100644
--- a/Sources/AWSSDKSwiftCore/XML.swift
+++ b/Sources/AWSSDKSwiftCore/XML.swift
@@ -440,7 +440,10 @@ public class XML {
         }
         
         func parser(_ parser: XMLParser, foundCharacters: String) {
-            currentElement?.addChild(XML.Node.text(stringValue: foundCharacters))
+            // if string with white space removed still has characters, add text node
+            if foundCharacters.components(separatedBy: .whitespaces).joined().count > 0 {
+                currentElement?.addChild(XML.Node.text(stringValue: foundCharacters))
+            }
         }
         
         func parser(_ parser: XMLParser, foundComment comment: String) {

From 3562b1f502d3509d09bc3887efbea9157dd71039 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Fowler <adamfowler71@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 10:27:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Added whitespace test

---
 Tests/AWSSDKSwiftCoreTests/XMLTests.swift | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Tests/AWSSDKSwiftCoreTests/XMLTests.swift b/Tests/AWSSDKSwiftCoreTests/XMLTests.swift
index 9ef8a2bc0..cc380011f 100644
--- a/Tests/AWSSDKSwiftCoreTests/XMLTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/AWSSDKSwiftCoreTests/XMLTests.swift
@@ -95,7 +95,18 @@ class XMLTests: XCTestCase {
             XCTFail(error.localizedDescription)
         }
     }
-
+    
+    func testWhitespaceDecodeEncode() {
+        let xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><test> <a> before</a><b></b> <c>after </c></test>"
+        do {
+            let xmlDocument = try XML.Document(data: xml.data(using: .utf8)!)
+            let xml2 = xmlDocument.xmlString
+            XCTAssertEqual(xml2, "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><test><a> before</a><b></b><c>after </c></test>")
+        } catch {
+            XCTFail(error.localizedDescription)
+        }
+    }
+    
     static var allTests : [(String, (XMLTests) -> () throws -> Void)] {
         return [
             ("testAddChild", testAddChild),