Merged from BRANCHES/DEV/KEVINR:

. NodeInfo panel and Ajax client library
 - Rewrite of Node Info panel
 - Alfresco common DOM methods refactored into namespaced object (YUI/Dojo style) Alfresco.Dom
 - Addition of useful DOM and 'smart' alignment method to common.js
 - OpenSearch now uses additional namespace for it's global method handlers: Alfresco.OpenSearchEngine
 - Temporary icons added for pop-up node info panel
. Additional FreeMarker model API method "cropContent(contentprop, length)" to return the first N bytes of a content stream - auto converted to plain/text from all supported transformation mimetypes
. DownloadContentServlet now handles ContentIOException more gracefully
. AbstractContentReader fixed to handle empty file data when requesting N characters from a content stream

. Yahoo scripts move to PageTag rendering as appropriate
. Refactoring of existing ajax components that output Yahoo scripts

git-svn-id: https://svn.alfresco.com/repos/alfresco-enterprise/alfresco/HEAD/root@5253 c4b6b30b-aa2e-2d43-bbcb-ca4b014f7261

source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/AbstractContentReader.java

@@ -400,10 +400,9 @@ public abstract class AbstractContentReader extends AbstractContentAccessor impl
             }
             // read it all, if possible
             int count = reader.read(buffer, 0, length);
-            // there may have been fewer characters - create a new string
-            String result = new String(buffer, 0, count);
-            // done
-            return result;
+            
+            // there may have been fewer characters - create a new string as the result
+            return (count != -1 ? new String(buffer, 0, count) : "");
         }
         catch (IOException e)
         {