refactor: properly support "empty" StAX element

[danielpeintner]

fixes #43

[jsbiff]

Hello. I cloned this branch to try to test it. After the clone, in the exificient dir, I tried "mvn install" to build and install the new version into my mvn repo so I could then, hopefully, try to use it in place of the release version, as a dependency (I'm a more than a bit of a novice to mvn, but trying to figure it out).

It appears to me that mvn encountered a build error - also, it appears that github is also reporting build errors (I see an error above, on this page "1 failing check".

So, I don't think I can test this, because it's not buildable.

My local maven gave this error:

Tests run: 2, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 16.76 sec - in com.siemens.ct.exi.main.data.BugTestCase

Results :

Tests in error: 
  ParallelTest.testParallelDecodeWithParTaskFactory:300->testParallelDecode:307->getExiSch:353->decodeExiToDoc:198 » EXI
  ParallelTest.testParallelDecodeWithThreadLocalFactory:295->testParallelDecode:325 » Execution

Tests run: 628, Failures: 0, Errors: 2, Skipped: 0

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time:  02:09 min
[INFO] Finished at: 2025-01-18T10:30:33-05:00
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.19:test (default-test) on project exificient: There are test failures.
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] Please refer to /home/jeff/src/exificient/target/surefire-reports for the individual test results.
[ERROR] -> [Help 1]
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoFailureException

UPDATE: Well, I figured out that I can skip the tests with: mvn install -DskipTests , so I used that to force the build to finish and install, so I will attempt to test now that way - but seems like you should try to fix the tests eventually so that the tests don't fail. I suppose perhaps you are awaiting results of my manual testing, before attempting to update the tests in source?

UPDATE 2: So, as I mentioned on the other ticket, I was under the mistaken impression I was cloning directly to the issue-43 branch. Turns out I cloned to the 'main' branch, and had to switch locally to the issue-43 branch and rebuild exificient to test the fix. Sorry, it's been awhile since I used git/github with branches. I got it sorted in the end though.

But, it appears even the issue-43 branch also gets the test errors, so I still had to force mvn to skip the tests to install and test it. But, my test was a success, and passed.

[danielpeintner]

Your lasted "update" means it is working as expected, right?

[jsbiff]

@danielpeintner - yes, that's right. Sorry about the confusion.