### Eclipse Workspace Patch 1.0
#P ecm-tagging
Index: src/main/java/org/onehippo/forge/ecmtagging/editor/TagsModel.java
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--- src/main/java/org/onehippo/forge/ecmtagging/editor/TagsModel.java	(revision 298)
+++ src/main/java/org/onehippo/forge/ecmtagging/editor/TagsModel.java	(working copy)
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 import javax.jcr.nodetype.ConstraintViolationException;
 import javax.jcr.version.VersionException;
 
+import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.wicket.model.Model;
 import org.apache.wicket.util.string.Strings;
 import org.hippoecm.frontend.model.properties.JcrPropertyModel;
@@ -80,7 +81,9 @@
             String[] tagsArray = tags.split(TAG_SEPARATOR);
             LinkedHashSet<String> set = new LinkedHashSet<String>();
             for (String tag : tagsArray) {
-                set.add(tag.trim());
+                if(!StringUtils.isBlank(tag)){
+                    set.add(tag.trim());
+                }
             }
             return set.toArray(new String[0]);
         }