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diff --git a/bs4/builder/_lxml.py b/bs4/builder/_lxml.py
index 3a1700c..b7e172c 100644
--- a/bs4/builder/_lxml.py
+++ b/bs4/builder/_lxml.py
@@ -71,12 +71,12 @@ class LXMLTreeBuilderForXML(TreeBuilder):
This might be useful later on when creating CSS selectors.
"""
for key, value in mapping.items():
- if key not in self.soup._namespaces:
- # Let the BeautifulSoup object know about a new namespace.
- # If there are multiple namespaces defined with the same
- # prefix, the first one in the document takes precedence.
- self.soup._namespaces[key] = value
-
+ if key and key not in self.soup._namespaces:
+ # Let the BeautifulSoup object know about a new namespace.
+ # If there are multiple namespaces defined with the same
+ # prefix, the first one in the document takes precedence.
+ self.soup._namespaces[key] = value
+
def default_parser(self, encoding):
# This can either return a parser object or a class, which
# will be instantiated with default arguments.