[Bug 525587] New: Close tag missing in XML output of optionally empty tags

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Summary: Close tag missing in XML output of optionally empty tags

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525587

           Summary: Close tag missing in XML output of optionally empty
                    tags
           Product: Fedora
           Version: 10
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: low
         Component: perl-HTML-Tree
        AssignedTo: tcallawa at redhat.com
        ReportedBy: jfearn at redhat.com
         QAContact: extras-qa at fedoraproject.org
                CC: tcallawa at redhat.com, fedora-perl-devel-list at redhat.com
            Blocks: 524832
    Classification: Fedora
    Target Release: ---


Created an attachment (id=362580)
 --> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=362580)
test script exhibiting bug

Description of problem:
HTML::Element::as_XML() has a bug where tags added to empty_element_map but
which contain data are missing their close tag when generating XML.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.23-4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run attached script

Actual results:

Not mapped to empty element (correct)
         <a href="http://example.com/"></a>

Mapped to empty element, no extra content (correct)
        <a href="http://example.com/" />

Mapped to empty element, extra content (missing close tag)
        <a href="http://example.com/">Extra content



Expected results:

Not mapped to empty element (correct)
         <a href="http://example.com/"></a>

Mapped to empty element, no extra content (correct)
        <a href="http://example.com/" />

Mapped to empty element, extra content (correct)
        <a href="http://example.com/">Extra content</a>



Additional info:

I opened an upstream bug with a patch
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49932 however it may take a while
for a new version to come out.

Since HTML::Element is the base class for XML::Element this bug affects all XML
systems where tags can be optionally empty and people wish to use the short
circuit form for the empty tags.

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