SPIN/DOM-XML-01035 - SpinXmlElement.elementList() fails on empty xml list

[Brutus5000]

Used packages:
camunda-spin-core:1.3.1
camunda-spin-dataformat-all:1.3.1

When I call elementList() on an empty XML tag I expect the get an empty list.

In the following you find 4 calls:

XML("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><List><Item/></List>").xPath("//List/node()").elementList();
XML("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><List> </List>").xPath("//List/node()").elementList();
XML("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><List></List>").xPath("//List/node()").elementList();
XML("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><List/>").xPath("//List/node()").elementList();

The first is my reference and returns 1 element in the list.
Calls 2-4 are equal in XML semantics. The only difference is that Call 2 contains a whitespace between the tags.
However, only the second call returns an empty list. Call 3 & 4 throw a SpinXPath expression, even though the xPath call itself does not throw the error - elementList() throws the error.

org.camunda.spin.xml.SpinXPathException: SPIN/DOM-XML-01035 Unable to find XPath expression '//List/node()'

at org.camunda.spin.impl.xml.dom.DomXmlLogger.unableToFindXPathExpression(DomXmlLogger.java:176)
at org.camunda.spin.impl.xml.dom.util.DomXmlEnsure.ensureXPathNotEmpty(DomXmlEnsure.java:83)
at org.camunda.spin.impl.xml.dom.query.DomXPathQuery.elementList(DomXPathQuery.java:79)
at [my code]

[Brutus5000]

Workaround: check for the presence of subnodes first:

    SpinXmlElement xml = XML("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><List></List>");
    if(xml.xPath("count(//List/*)").number() > 0 ) {
        xml.xPath("//List/node()").elementList();
    };