Cannot parse XML node value (text), when there is an inner XML node

Given the following XML:

<parent>
    <child>Child Text<childNode value="123"/></child>
</parent>

Reading the XML using Spark XML:

parents = spark.read.format('xml').options(rowTag='parent', valueTag='closeTag').load('spark_xml_bug.xml')
parents.printSchema()
parents.show()

res_schema

Does not give the desired result:

parents = parents.withColumn('child_text', col('child'))
parents = parents.withColumn('child_node_value', col('child.childNode._value'))
parents.show()

res_2

I expect the value for child_text to be 'Child Text' and not NULL.

Any ideas on how to solve this issue? @srowen , @HyukjinKwon

PS. I tried defining a schema and forcing child to be a String type (instead of struct), however, any other node after that is ignored (although I do see the string 'Child Text')

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Cannot parse XML node value (text), when there is an inner XML node #592

Cannot parse XML node value (text), when there is an inner XML node