I have this set up to import an item and up to 3 associated updates. Works perfectly, except that there's a date associated with each update. For all the other items (mostly "link" field types), if that field doesn't exist in the original xml, no data is pulled and the associated field in the node is empty and doesn't display. For the dates, even though I have it set as "no default date" and "not required" it will "import" (or really just insert) the date of the import. I'm using a custom date with a text field and "c" for the format (ISO). I've tried date/iso field type and no change. If I set the field to just be straight text, it recognizes that there is no data and doesn't import/insert/display it. So... any thoughts on how I can get it to "ignore" empty date fields (since it works correctly and ignores other empty field types)?

Thanks!