Spaces getting lost after xml tags

[pokhiii]

Describe the bug

const { fragment } = require('xmlbuilder2');

const mainTag = 'permissions';
const root = fragment({ encoding: 'UTF-8' }).ele(mainTag);

let content = '<copyright-statement>this copyright <bold>statement</bold> <italic>here</italic> <ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="google.com">wit</ext-link></copyright-statement><license  xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ><license-p>some license statement here <bold>statement</bold>  <italic>here  </italic> <ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="google.com">wit</ext-link>h stuff </license-p></license>';

console.log(content)
content = root.ele(content).end()
console.log(content)

To Reproduce
The above code should suffice to reproduce the issue.

Expected behavior
Space should be preserved after tags.

Version:

• node.js: [v17.6.0]
• xmlbuilder2 [3.0.2]

Additional context
Add any other context about the problem here.

[pokhiii]

tried to come up with workaround using custom parser but not able to make it work completely. The content is getting XML encoded

const { fragment } = require('xmlbuilder2');

const mainTag = 'permissions';
let root = fragment({
	encoding: 'UTF-8',
	parser: { parse: (parent, contents) => {
		return parent.txt(contents)
	} },
}).ele(mainTag)
let content = '<copyright-statement>this copyright <bold>statement</bold> <italic>here</italic> <ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="google.com">wit</ext-link></copyright-statement><license  xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ><license-p>some license statement here <bold>statement</bold>  <italic>here  </italic> <ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="google.com">wit</ext-link>h stuff </license-p></license>';

console.log(content)
content  = root.ele(content).end()
console.log(content)

[jwasnoggin]

I've got what I believe is a similar issue, but in this case elements that contain only a space are having the space removed after being converted to an object and back. To replicate:

import { convert } from 'xmlbuilder2';

const xml = `<t> </t>`;
const obj = convert(xml, { format: 'object' });
const newXml = convert({ encoding: 'UTF-8' }, obj);
console.log(newXml);

This results in <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><t/>

After examining the code, I discovered that I change the initial convert line to solve the problem:

const obj = convert({skipWhitespaceOnlyText: false}, xml, { format: 'object' });