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XMLParser moves #text into the unpairedTag node #785

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Description

If the next sibling node after a tag declared as unpaired (by unpairedTags option) is simple #text, it will be moved as a child during parsing. When passing such an object to XMLBuilder to restore the original XHTML, such text will be cut out.

<p>hello<br>world</p>

This does NOT reproduce if the node following unpaired is followed by a tag. For example:

<p>hello<br><b>world</b></p>

It also does NOT reproduce if the unpaired node contains a closing slash:

<p>hello<br/>world</p>

Code

import { XMLParser, XMLBuilder } from 'fast-xml-parser'

const html = `
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <title>Fast XML Parser</title>
        <meta charset="UTF-8">
    </head>
    <body>
        <p>
            hello
            <br>
            world
        </p>
    </body>
</html>`

const parsingOptions = {
    ignoreAttributes: false,
    preserveOrder: true,
    unpairedTags: ["hr", "br", "link", "meta"],
};
const parser = new XMLParser(parsingOptions);
let result = parser.parse(html);
console.log(JSON.stringify(result, null, 2))

const builderOptions = {
    ignoreAttributes: false,
    preserveOrder: true,
    suppressEmptyNode: true,
    unpairedTags: ["hr", "br", "link", "meta"],
}
const builder = new XMLBuilder(builderOptions);
const output = builder.build(result);
console.log(output)

Output

jObj
[
  {
    "html": [
      {
        "head": [
          {
            "title": [
              {
                "#text": "Fast XML Parser"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "meta": [],
            ":@": {
              "@_charset": "UTF-8"
            }
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "body": [
          {
            "p": [
              {
                "#text": "hello"
              },
              {
                "br": [
                  {
                    "#text": "world"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    ":@": {
      "@_lang": "en"
    }
  }
]

xmlOutput

<html lang="en"><head><title>Fast XML Parser</title><meta charset="UTF-8"></head><body><p>hello<br></p></body></html>

expected data

jObj
[
  {
    "html": [
      {
        "head": [
          {
            "title": [
              {
                "#text": "Fast XML Parser"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "meta": [],
            ":@": {
              "@_charset": "UTF-8"
            }
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "body": [
          {
            "p": [
              {
                "#text": "hello"
              },
              {
                "br": []
              },
              {
                "#text": "world"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    ":@": {
      "@_lang": "en"
    }
  }
]

xmlOutput

<html lang="en"><head><title>Fast XML Parser</title><meta charset="UTF-8"></head><body><p>hello<br>world</p></body></html>

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