1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/xml.c b/src/xml.c
index d8e6f8c3faa..63041c96b24 100644
--- a/src/xml.c
+++ b/src/xml.c
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ parse_region (Lisp_Object start, Lisp_Object end, Lisp_Object base_url, int html
     doc = xmlReadMemory ((char *) BYTE_POS_ADDR (CHAR_TO_BYTE (istart)),
                          bytes, burl, "utf-8",
                          XML_PARSE_NONET|XML_PARSE_NOWARNING|
-                         XML_PARSE_NOERROR);
+                         XML_PARSE_NOBLANKS |XML_PARSE_NOERROR);
 
   if (doc != NULL)
     {