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BOOST_TEST_LOG_FORMAT=XML not generating valid XML

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
testing-qa

Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue with ctest, the testcase, and BOOST_TEST_LOG_FORMAT=XML, then inspect the generated XML shown in the report. Compare the output with XML validity requirements; done means the test output is accepted as valid XML.

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Description

I'm running some ctests in my project and I want to generate test output in an XML file, for that I am providing BOOST_TEST_LOG_FORMAT=XML as env variable before running my testcase. Testcase runs successfully but generates an invalid XML
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