Bug 525587

Created attachment 362580 [details]
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.