diff -urN jud-0.4/jud_search.c jud-0.4.olo/jud_search.c
--- jud-0.4/jud_search.c	Thu Feb  1 10:46:54 2001
+++ jud-0.4.olo/jud_search.c	Mon Dec  9 17:19:54 2002
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@
     int flag_searched = 0;
     int flag_mismatch = 0;
     char *data;
+    char *normalizeddata;
+    char message[MAX_LOG_SIZE];
 
     for(term = xmlnode_get_firstchild(p->iq); term != NULL; term = xmlnode_get_nextsibling(term))
     {
@@ -46,7 +48,24 @@
 
         flag_searched = 1;
 
-        if(j_strncasecmp(data,xmlnode_get_tag_data(cur,xmlnode_get_name(term)),strlen(data)) != 0)
+    /* Strip initial whitespace characters to workaround
+     * a bug in XML parser where empty elements 
+     * on a line with initial whitespaces would
+     * receive those whitespaces in their content
+     */
+    for (normalizeddata = data;
+            *normalizeddata != '\0' &&
+            *normalizeddata == '\t' ||
+            *normalizeddata == '\n' ||
+            *normalizeddata == ' '
+            ;
+        normalizeddata++)
+        ;
+    data = normalizeddata;
+
+    if( (strlen(data) > 0) &&
+		(j_strncasecmp(data,xmlnode_get_tag_data(cur,xmlnode_get_name(term)),strlen(data)) != 0)
+	)
             flag_mismatch = 1;
 
     }