parse-unparse does not roundtrip on mixed content model

to simply reproduce:

import xmltodict
mix = xmltodict.parse('<mix>before <nested>inside</nested> after</mix>')
xmltodict.unparse(mix, full_document=False)

'<mix><nested>inside</nested>before  after</mix>'

the before-after text gets somehow joined into one '#text' node

[mpf82]

I wonder why xmltodict so popular. We have alternative in java .

An “alternatvive in java” is pretty useless for a Python developer.

[javadev]

It may be converted to this json

{
  "mix": {
    "#text": "before ",
    "nested": "inside",
    "#text1": " after"
  },
  "#omit-xml-declaration": "yes"
}