Bug: Java gdata API is creating invalid XML

Just noticed this in my logs. The gdata API 1.0.3 is creating XML that 
can't be parsed by Google's servers.

Sat 2006/Sep/30 3:32:09.375 
PM|***|http-8080-Processor12|SWSyncSource|java.lang.Exception: sync() 
error. Google ServiceException response body:
null
java.lang.Exception: sync() error. Google ServiceException response body:
null
         at 
com.wss.calendar.sync4j.GoogleCalendarSync.sync(GoogleCalendarSync.java:957)
<snip>
Caused by: com.google.gdata.util.ParseException: 
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Content is not allowed in prolog.
         at com.google.gdata.util.XmlParser.parse(Unknown Source)
         at com.google.gdata.util.XmlParser.parse(Unknown Source)
         at com.google.gdata.data.BaseFeed.parseAtom(Unknown Source)
         at com.google.gdata.client.Service.getFeed(Unknown Source)
         at com.google.gdata.client.GoogleService.getFeed(Unknown Source)
         at com.google.gdata.client.Service.query(Unknown Source)
         at com.google.gdata.client.Service.query(Unknown Source)
         at 
com.wss.calendar.sync4j.GoogleCalendarSync.getEventFeed(GoogleCalendarSync.java:219)
         at 
com.wss.calendar.sync4j.GoogleCalendarSync.sync(GoogleCalendarSync.java:594)
         ... 28 more
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Content is not allowed in prolog.
         at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1269)
         at org.xml.sax.helpers.ParserAdapter.parse(ParserAdapter.java:405)
         ... 37 more

It looks like the gdata client has a bug that sends a null/empty 
document to the server.

Cheers.

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