Looking into it.
I suspect it might be caused by copy().
Yup. I just stepped through copy()
data.toXMLString() is correct.
<foo baz="”/>
after:
this._rawXML = data.copy();
<foo baz="null”/>
I wonder if Language.string() should return “” for undefined.
Thoughts?
> On Nov 12, 2021, at 9:14 AM, Edward Stangler <estang...@bradmark.com> wrote:
>
>
> How are you creating the XML object and converting it back to a string,
> exactly?
>
> I just tested doing this:
>
> var x:XML = new XML("<foo baz=\"\"><bar /></foo>");
> l.text = "XML = " + x.toString();
>
> And it works fine. (But note that <foo baz=""/> makes x.toString() ==
> "", because root tag <foo> doesn't have a child.)
>
> Doing "<myxml><foo baz=\"\"/></myxml>" also works fine.
>
>
> On 11/11/2021 10:31 AM, Harbs wrote:
>> I have XML which had <foo baz=“”/> and after reading it into an XML object
>> and writing it back I get <foo baz=“null”/>
>>
>> I have not yet investigated at which point it becomes “null”.
>>
>>> On Nov 11, 2021, at 5:11 PM, Edward Stangler <estang...@bradmark.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> In what context? Like an example.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/11/2021 3:40 AM, Harbs wrote:
>>>> At some point (not sure when), it seems like when writing xml, empty
>>>> string attributes became “null” instead of “”.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas when/how that happened?
>>>
>>
>
