Using a self closing tag in .rbxlx gives an XML error when it shouldn’t. A self closing tag is a tag that has no content and closes itself. As an example, <this /> is equivalent to <this></this>.
Unable to parse XML attributes. ‘=’ not found
Roblox Studio does not support this, making it difficult to write external tools that automatically make self-closing tags (like BeautifulSoup).
Reproduction:
- Make a .rbxlx file with the following code:
<roblox xmlns:xmime="http://www.w3.org/2005/05/xmlmime" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://www.roblox.com/roblox.xsd" version="4">
<External>null</External>
<External>nil</External>
<Item class="Workspace" referent="RBXEED2C33B325D44BDA01FA78D25391CEF">
<Properties>
<BinaryString name="Tags"></BinaryString>
</Properties>
</Item>
</roblox>
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Open it up. Notice that it works.
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Replace
<BinaryString name="Tags"></BinaryString>with<BinaryString name="Tags" />, which should be the exact same. -
Unable to parse XML attributes. ‘=’ not found
Why it matters
A lot of external XML programs will automatically create these self-closing tags, meaning if you want to write an external program that plays around with rbxlx files (which I am), you have to choose the right one that doesn’t do this or has a configuration option for it. If Roblox’s XML parser supported self-closing tags, this would make writing these external programs easier.
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