diff -r 5dc02b23752f -r 3e2da88830cd src/corelib/xml/qxmlstream.cpp
--- a/src/corelib/xml/qxmlstream.cpp	Tue Jul 06 15:10:48 2010 +0300
+++ b/src/corelib/xml/qxmlstream.cpp	Wed Aug 18 10:37:55 2010 +0300
@@ -560,7 +560,7 @@
     chunk of XML can be added with addData(), if the XML is being read
     from a QByteArray, or by waiting for more data to arrive if the
     XML is being read from a QIODevice. Either way, atEnd() will
-    return false once more adata is available.
+    return false once more data is available.
 
     \sa hasError(), error(), device(), QIODevice::atEnd()
  */
@@ -3716,7 +3716,8 @@
 {
     Q_D(QXmlStreamWriter);
     Q_ASSERT(!data.contains(QLatin1String("?>")));
-    d->finishStartElement();
+    if (!d->finishStartElement(false) && d->autoFormatting)
+        d->indent(d->tagStack.size());
     d->write("<?");
     d->write(target);
     if (!data.isNull()) {