More Fixes (#1993)

* Strip just isbn: from epub isbns and log when it's back (books)

* Tweaked to allow invalid GTINs but only valid ISBN 10/13s will be saved to Kavita.

* Fixed a bug with parsing series from a filename that is just a chapter range and no chapter/volume keywords.

* Show the media issue count before you open accordion

* Added a inpage filter for Media issues

* Cleanup styles

* Fixed up some code in epub isbn parsing when it's null

* Encode filenames when downloading so that non english characters can be passed properly to UI.

* Added support to parse ComicInfo's with Empty Tags.

* Reset development settings.

* Tweaked the code in generating reading lists to avoid extra work when not needed.

* Fix comicvine's favicon

* Fixed up a unit test

* Tweaked the favicon code to ignore icons that have query parameters

* More favicon work. Expanded ability to grab icons a bit. Added in ability to not keep requesting favicons when we failed to parse already.

* Added a note for later

* Fixed stats server url

* Added more debugging

* Fixed unit tests

API/Services/ArchiveService.cs

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ using System.Diagnostics;
 using System.IO;
 using System.IO.Compression;
 using System.Linq;
+using System.Xml.Linq;
 using System.Xml.Serialization;
 using API.Archive;
 using API.Data.Metadata;
@@ -372,10 +373,7 @@ public class ArchiveService : IArchiveService
                     if (entry != null)
                     {
                         using var stream = entry.Open();
-                        var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(ComicInfo));
-                        var info = (ComicInfo?) serializer.Deserialize(stream);
-                        ComicInfo.CleanComicInfo(info);
-                        return info;
+                        return Deserialize(stream);
                     }
 
                     break;
@@ -390,9 +388,7 @@ public class ArchiveService : IArchiveService
                     if (entry != null)
                     {
                         using var stream = entry.OpenEntryStream();
-                        var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(ComicInfo));
-                        var info = (ComicInfo?) serializer.Deserialize(stream);
-                        ComicInfo.CleanComicInfo(info);
+                        var info = Deserialize(stream);
                         return info;
                     }
 
@@ -418,6 +414,28 @@ public class ArchiveService : IArchiveService
         return null;
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Strips out empty tags before deserializing
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="stream"></param>
+    /// <returns></returns>
+    private static ComicInfo? Deserialize(Stream stream)
+    {
+        var comicInfoXml = XDocument.Load(stream);
+        comicInfoXml.Descendants()
+            .Where(e => e.IsEmpty || string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(e.Value))
+            .Remove();
+
+        var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(ComicInfo));
+        using var reader = comicInfoXml.Root?.CreateReader();
+        if (reader == null) return null;
+
+        var info  = (ComicInfo?) serializer.Deserialize(reader);
+        ComicInfo.CleanComicInfo(info);
+        return info;
+
+    }
+
 
     private void ExtractArchiveEntities(IEnumerable<IArchiveEntry> entries, string extractPath)
     {