From 2e69fdadf7c89ade83f8e93defdeb3cafd982396 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephan Preibisch <stephan.preibisch@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 15:55:46 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix empty URI problem

---
 .../mvrecon/fiji/plugin/queryXML/GenericLoadParseQueryXML.java | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/net/preibisch/mvrecon/fiji/plugin/queryXML/GenericLoadParseQueryXML.java b/src/main/java/net/preibisch/mvrecon/fiji/plugin/queryXML/GenericLoadParseQueryXML.java
index d88b5dc6..cede6b7f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/preibisch/mvrecon/fiji/plugin/queryXML/GenericLoadParseQueryXML.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/preibisch/mvrecon/fiji/plugin/queryXML/GenericLoadParseQueryXML.java
@@ -254,7 +254,8 @@ public boolean queryXML(
 		this.attributeChoice = new HashMap< String, Integer >();
 
 		// try parsing if it ends with XML
-		tryParsing( URITools.toURI( defaultXMLURI ), false );
+		// also initializes messages
+		tryParsing( defaultXMLURI.trim().length() == 0 ? URI.create( "" ) : URITools.toURI( defaultXMLURI ), false );
 
 		if ( additionalTitle != null && additionalTitle.length() > 0 )
 			gd = new GenericDialogPlus( "Select dataset for " + additionalTitle );