[1.0.4] Html Tags with No Characters In Between Get Mangled

[danl3v]

If you're reporting a bug, please do the following:

• Mention the Twine version you're using

  1.0.4

• Provide a minimal but complete input file causing the error (inline with triple ` is fine)

  [[Test]]
  [String]
      en = <b></b>

• Quote the exact twine command that's being run

  twine generate-localization-file string.txt en.xml --format android && twine consume-localization-file string.txt en.xml --format android

• Provide the complete expected output (again, inline is fine) I would expect the same output as the input but I see this. This shouldn't really be an issue in the wild since we usually don't have tags with no contents, but it might cause folks some unexpected issues.

[[Test]]
    [String]
        en = <b/>

[sebastianludwig]

Thanks Daniel for raising this issue 👍

However I'm inclined to to close it as Won't Fix until it's a real problem for someone. I suspect it's REXML's .to_s that collapses the tags. SO suggests that an injected empty string content would preserve the closing tag. But...phew...looks like complexity without real benefit to me. @scelis?

[scelis]

Hmm, I tend to agree. If this is caused by REXML and there's no way to configure it differently, I think using something like a zero width space character is a valid workaround.

[danl3v]

Yeah we found the same thing and couldn’t find a fix after looking into the docs for REXML. I am find closing. We shouldn’t have empty tags of html anyways

[danl3v]

Thanks for looking into it!