seems to work

local/go-ucs/api/xml.go

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import (
 // As of now XML marshaling in Go always uses start and end tags,
 // which results in XML elements like the one below.
 //
-//    <Person name="me"></Person>
+//	<Person name="me"></Person>
 //
 // Above XML elements cannot be parsed by the remote Cisco UCS API endpoint,
 // and such API calls result in parse error returned to the client.
@@ -41,13 +41,15 @@ import (
 // hopefully one day make into the language as a feature.
 //
 // https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/guG6iOCRu08
+//
+// Update by Nathan: update regex to also match caret when searching for tags to update
 func xmlMarshalWithSelfClosingTags(in interface{}) ([]byte, error) {
 	data, err := xml.Marshal(in)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	re := regexp.MustCompile(`<([^/][\w\s\"\=\-\/]*)>\s*<(\/\w*)>`)
+	re := regexp.MustCompile(`<([^/][\w\s\"\=\-\/\^]*)>\s*<(\/\w*)>`)
 	newData := re.ReplaceAllString(string(data), "<$1/>")
 
 	return []byte(newData), nil