It's only used to make some sanity checks on what was just parsed, so allowing NULL root_node is fine. --- libvirt-gconfig/libvirt-gconfig-helpers.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/libvirt-gconfig/libvirt-gconfig-helpers.c b/libvirt-gconfig/libvirt-gconfig-helpers.c index fecf3eb..a9aaa0b 100644 --- a/libvirt-gconfig/libvirt-gconfig-helpers.c +++ b/libvirt-gconfig/libvirt-gconfig-helpers.c @@ -148,7 +148,8 @@ gvir_config_xml_parse(const char *xml, const char *root_node, GError **err) "Unable to parse configuration"); return NULL; } - if ((!doc->children) || (strcmp((char *)doc->children->name, root_node) != 0)) { + if ((!doc->children) || + ((root_node != NULL) && g_strcmp0((char *)doc->children->name, root_node) != 0)) { g_set_error(err, GVIR_CONFIG_OBJECT_ERROR, 0, -- 1.7.7.6 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list