Description
An embedded line terminator bypasses the requireWellFormed serializer check for element and attribute names.
Recommendation
Update the @xmldom/xmldom package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:
- Affected version(s): = 0.9.11
- Patched version(s): 0.9.12
References
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