From d8f4a31efe02d15acefcb2c9b20be39059042e6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Subramanya Sastry <ssastry@wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 23:31:53 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Handle <references></references> without crashing

* Fixes rt regressions on svwiki:Havre and a bunch of other titles.

Change-Id: I1d31ccf1045ba5a4fef9377101ad4e90a534c1e9
---
 lib/ext/Cite/index.js | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/ext/Cite/index.js b/lib/ext/Cite/index.js
index 2bb3b481a..6c6e8726b 100644
--- a/lib/ext/Cite/index.js
+++ b/lib/ext/Cite/index.js
@@ -377,6 +377,7 @@ References.prototype.toDOM = function(state, content, args) {
 
 		var frag = createReferences(state.manager.env, doc.body, refsOpts, function(dp) {
 			dp.src = state.extToken.getAttribute('source');
+			dp.selfClose = state.extToken.dataAttribs.selfClose;
 		});
 		doc.body.appendChild(frag);
 
@@ -526,10 +527,12 @@ References.prototype.insertReferencesIntoDOM = function(refsNode, refsData, nest
 			dataMw.autoGenerated = true;
 		} else if (nestedRefsHTML.length > 0) {
 			dataMw.body = { 'html': '\n' + nestedRefsHTML.join('') };
-		} else if (dataMw.body === null) {
-			// Is this correct?
+		} else if (!dp.selfClose) {
+			dataMw.body = { 'html': '' };
+		} else {
 			dataMw.body = undefined;
 		}
+		dp.selfClose = undefined;
 	}
 
 	var refGroup = refsData.getRefGroup(group);