From 670c31b0598a171ed882b9d986af6db88b4752d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alessandro Pasotti <elpaso@itopen.it>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 19:03:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Do not bail out from reading the layer xml if layer is not
 valid

---
 src/core/qgsmaplayer.cpp | 8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/core/qgsmaplayer.cpp b/src/core/qgsmaplayer.cpp
index 54d6b78a06f2..3f04ba3473d4 100644
--- a/src/core/qgsmaplayer.cpp
+++ b/src/core/qgsmaplayer.cpp
@@ -283,12 +283,6 @@ bool QgsMapLayer::readLayerXml( const QDomElement &layerElement, QgsReadWriteCon
   QgsCoordinateReferenceSystem::setCustomCrsValidation( savedValidation );
   mCRS = savedCRS;
 
-  // Abort if any error in layer, such as not found.
-  if ( layerError )
-  {
-    return false;
-  }
-
   // the internal name is just the data source basename
   //QFileInfo dataSourceFileInfo( mDataSource );
   //internalName = dataSourceFileInfo.baseName();
@@ -387,7 +381,7 @@ bool QgsMapLayer::readLayerXml( const QDomElement &layerElement, QgsReadWriteCon
   QDomElement metadataElem = layerElement.firstChildElement( QStringLiteral( "resourceMetadata" ) );
   mMetadata.readMetadataXml( metadataElem );
 
-  return true;
+  return ! layerError;
 } // bool QgsMapLayer::readLayerXML