`alwaysCreateTextNode` does not add `#text` to empty/self-closing tags that have attributes with `ignoreAttributes` set to `false`

[loucadufault]

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Description

When alwaysCreateTextNode: true and ignoreAttributes: false, empty or self-closing tags without attributes correctly get { "#text": "" }. However, empty or self-closing tags with attributes do not get a #text property — they only contain the attribute keys. This is inconsistent: the alwaysCreateTextNode option should guarantee a #text key regardless of whether the tag has attributes.

This makes it impossible to rely on #text always being present, which defeats the purpose of the option.

Input

<rootNode>
    <tag>value</tag>
    <tag2 some="attribute">12345</tag2>
    <empty></empty>
    <empty/>
    <emptyWithAttr some="attribute"></emptyWithAttr>
    <selfClosingWithAttr some="attribute"/>
</rootNode>

Code

import { XMLParser } from 'fast-xml-parser';

const options = {
    alwaysCreateTextNode: true,
    ignoreAttributes: false,
    parseAttributeValue: true,
};

const parser = new XMLParser(options);
const result = parser.parse(xmlData);

Output

{
    "rootNode": {
        "tag": { "#text": "value" },
        "tag2": { "#text": 12345, "@_some": "attribute" },
        "empty": [
            { "#text": "" },
            { "#text": "" }
        ],
        "emptyWithAttr": { "@_some": "attribute" },
        "selfClosingWithAttr": { "@_some": "attribute" }
    }
}

expected data

{
    "rootNode": {
        "tag": { "#text": "value" },
        "tag2": { "#text": 12345, "@_some": "attribute" },
        "empty": [
            { "#text": "" },
            { "#text": "" }
        ],
        "emptyWithAttr": { "#text": "", "@_some": "attribute" },
        "selfClosingWithAttr": { "#text": "", "@_some": "attribute" }
    }
}

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