From 2a8f47e357bfbfe20c962cade4455793e45dae7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bob Arnson <bob@firegiant.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 22:13:33 -0500
Subject: Support an empty multiString registry value

---
 src/WixToolset.Core/Compiler_2.cs | 7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src/WixToolset.Core')

diff --git a/src/WixToolset.Core/Compiler_2.cs b/src/WixToolset.Core/Compiler_2.cs
index f55264e5..1922a70b 100644
--- a/src/WixToolset.Core/Compiler_2.cs
+++ b/src/WixToolset.Core/Compiler_2.cs
@@ -1977,16 +1977,11 @@ namespace WixToolset.Core
                 }
             }
 
-            if (multiStringValue == null)
-            {
-                this.Core.Write(ErrorMessages.ExpectedAttribute(sourceLineNumbers, node.Name.LocalName, "Value"));
-            }
-
             this.Core.VerifyNoInnerText(sourceLineNumbers, node);
 
             this.Core.ParseForExtensionElements(node);
 
-            return (null == value) ? multiStringValue : String.Concat(value, "[~]", multiStringValue);
+            return null == value ? multiStringValue ?? "[~]" : String.Concat(value, "[~]", multiStringValue);
         }
 
         /// <summary>
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