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This PR is still up-to-date.

Thank you for your contribution and participation in the bug tracking process. As there has been no response to the request for further information I am closing this report at this time.

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Hello Brian, thx for bringing this one up again. The bug and PR is still current and could be re-opened. I have to admit that I don't know what the specific behavior of this bug was, but from checking the code again, I can say that the PR makes this behave the way it is supposed to be.

To test this, you would have to create a menu item as a parent item with a random type, then set up menu items for the different component views (contact category, content category, content article, newsfeed category, newsfeed newsfeed and weblink category) and link each to a respective item/category. In the categories, you would have to have subcategories and in those subcategories you would need items that are not linked in the menu. In the end, you should be able to navigate to something like this:
/<parent_menu_item>/<active_menu_item>/<category_42>/<item_21>
as an example URL. This structure should be represented in the breadcrumbs. This PR should only affect the displayed hierarchy of the breadcrumbs.

So, if you feel that this bug is important enough and the explanation is okay, please re-open it.

Re-opened as requested

This PR needs a review from a maintainer. It is hard to test this, but if you review the code, you see the issues...

Your file for the JDocumentXmlTest that got accidently removed then recommitted was given a slightly different name if you look at the diff. You need to change XML to Xml

Ok, so, I don't really want to re-do this whole PR to get the JDocumentXmlTest thing fixed and I also think that I would rather want to fix this whole thing on a different level. Since this PR also moves towards its first anniversary, I'm closing it. When the routing is done, I will revisit this and create a new PR.