diff --git a/common/src/main/java/com/genexus/xml/XMLWriter.java b/common/src/main/java/com/genexus/xml/XMLWriter.java
index b4c8a0cf4..64e2e27e6 100644
--- a/common/src/main/java/com/genexus/xml/XMLWriter.java
+++ b/common/src/main/java/com/genexus/xml/XMLWriter.java
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ private boolean CloseElementHeaderAndValue()
 
 	private boolean IsBlank(String s)
 	{
-		return (s == null || s.trim().length() == 0);
+		return (s == null || s.length() == 0);
 	}
 		
 	private StringBuffer openRequestEncoding = null;