Considers closing tag to be valid without closing bracket

In its default configuration (and on your online tool), fast-xml-parser considers <test></test to be valid XML.

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• Are you running the latest version?
• Have you included sample input, output, error, and expected output?
• Have you checked if you are using correct configuration?
• Did you try online tool?

Input

input data(one character at a time): <test></test

Code

validateXML(xml) {
   if (!!xml) console.log(xml, parser.validate(xml));
}

Output

< {err: {…}}
<t {err: {…}}
<te {err: {…}}
<tes {err: {…}}
<test {err: {…}}
<test> {err: {…}}
<test>< {err: {…}}
<test></ {err: {…}}
<test></t {err: {…}}
<test></te {err: {…}}
<test></tes {err: {…}}
<test></test true

expected data

.
.
.
<test></test {err: {…}}

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[cliffhall]

For anyone running into this issue, here is the workaround I came up with for now:

const valid = !!xml && xml.trim().endsWith('>') && (parser.validate(xml) === true);

[amitguptagwl]

there were some misunderstandings in our conversation. Apologies not to understand it in the first place. However, I have fixed the bug you reported. Thanks for reporting