--- loncom/publisher/lonpublisher.pm	2001/08/13 16:12:59	1.38
+++ loncom/publisher/lonpublisher.pm	2001/08/17 21:25:36	1.41
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 # 04/16/2001 Scott Harrison
 # 05/03,05/05,05/07 Gerd Kortemeyer
 # 05/28/2001 Scott Harrison
-# 06/23,08/07,08/11,8/13 Gerd Kortemeyer
+# 06/23,08/07,08/11,8/13,8/17 Gerd Kortemeyer
 
 package Apache::lonpublisher;
 
@@ -71,7 +71,8 @@ sub metaeval {
               } @{$token->[3]};
               if ($metadatafields{$unikey}) {
 		  my $newentry=$parser->get_text('/'.$entry);
-                  unless ($metadatafields{$unikey}=~/$newentry/) {
+                  unless (($metadatafields{$unikey}=~/$newentry/) ||
+                          ($newentry eq '')) {
                      $metadatafields{$unikey}.=', '.$newentry;
 		  }
 	      } else {
@@ -135,6 +136,7 @@ sub selectbox {
 
 sub urlfixup {
     my ($url,$target)=@_;
+    unless ($url) { return ''; }
     my ($host)=($url=~/(?:http\:\/\/)*([^\/]+)/);
     map {
 	if ($_ eq $host) {
@@ -142,6 +144,7 @@ sub urlfixup {
             $url=~s/^$host//;
         }
     } values %Apache::lonnet::hostname;
+    if ($url=~/^http\:\/\//) { return $url; }
     $url=~s/\~$cuname/res\/$cudom\/$cuname/;
     if ($target) {
 	$target=~s/\/[^\/]+$//;
@@ -306,7 +309,7 @@ sub publish {
 		 }
               } elsif ($token->[0] eq 'E') {
                   unless ($token->[1] eq 'allow') {
-                     $outstring.=$token->[2];
+                     $outstring.='</'.$token->[1].'>';
 		  }
               } else {
                   $outstring.=$token->[1];