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encoding/xml: No way of creating self terminating nodes with MarshalXML #6896

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nemith opened this issue Dec 5, 2013 · 3 comments
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encoding/xml: No way of creating self terminating nodes with MarshalXML #6896

nemith opened this issue Dec 5, 2013 · 3 comments
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nemith commented Dec 5, 2013 

What steps will reproduce the problem?
If possible, include a link to a program on play.golang.org.
1. http://play.golang.org/p/o20RjaRdtQ
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What is the expected output?

It would be preferable to get
<RPCElementTarget><running/></RPCElementTarget>

What do you see instead?

There is no way to do self terminating elements.  The best we can do is to do a start
and end element with no chardata.  This does not work for my application.  The closest
output is:
<RPCElementTarget><running></running></RPCElementTarget>

Which compiler are you using (5g, 6g, 8g, gccgo)?
6g

Which operating system are you using?
OS X 10.9

Which version are you using?  (run 'go version')
go version go1.2 darwin/amd64

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minux commented Dec 5, 2013

Comment 1:

Labels changed: added repo-main.

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The xml package does not handle this case at the moment. the XML rfc says that
<element></element> and <element /> are semantically identical, but I
understand that this is sometimes lost in the sea of interoperability.
One solution to this problem would be to add an extra attribute to the struct tag to
indicate that this tag should be encoded with the empty element form.
If you want to tackle this, please remember to discuss your design before starting
coding.

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@rsc rsc added this to the Unplanned milestone Apr 10, 2015
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Duplicate of #21399 (this issue is older, but someone has a change against the new issue, so I'm closing this one). Thanks!

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