From f37e86ff58d7b5a47484e60aded45bf8b98ae918 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rolf Bjarne Kvinge <rolf@xamarin.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 15:59:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [mono-api-html] Print string fields with no (or null) value
 without an NRE.

---
 mcs/tools/corcompare/mono-api-html/FieldComparer.cs | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mcs/tools/corcompare/mono-api-html/FieldComparer.cs b/mcs/tools/corcompare/mono-api-html/FieldComparer.cs
index 54942b64043..fd21e3fb270 100644
--- a/mcs/tools/corcompare/mono-api-html/FieldComparer.cs
+++ b/mcs/tools/corcompare/mono-api-html/FieldComparer.cs
@@ -71,8 +71,12 @@ namespace Xamarin.ApiDiff {
 				string ftype = e.GetTypeName ("fieldtype");
 				sb.Append (ftype).Append (' ');
 				sb.Append (name);
-				if (ftype == "string")
-					sb.Append (" = \"").Append (e.Attribute ("value").Value).Append ('"');
+				if (ftype == "string" && e.Attribute ("value") != null) {
+					if (value == null)
+						sb.Append (" = null");
+					else
+						sb.Append (" = \"").Append (value).Append ('"');
+				}
 				sb.Append (';');
 			}
 
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