ROS packages XML parsing error

[heregoesmarcel]

Commands like roscd, rospack, etc. throw the following exception on execution/automatic insertion:

roscd terminate called after throwing an instance of 'rospack::Exception'
  what():  error parsing manifest of package smclib at /home/user/ros_catkin_ws/install_isolated/share/smclib/package.xml
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'rospack::Exception'
  what():  error parsing manifest of package smclib at /home/user/ros_catkin_ws/install_isolated/share/smclib/package.xml

Currently applying the fix mentioned in ros/rospack/issues/77.

Steps taken:

• uninstalled libtinyxml2-4 and libtinyxml2-dev via apt
• installed leethomason/tinyxml2 from source
• roscd is unable to find explicit libtinnyxml2.so.4 version due to >5 being installed
• executing catkin_make in svo_workspace produces:

==> make -j1 -l1 in '/home/user/ros_catkin_ws/build_isolated/rospack'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target '/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libtinyxml2.so', needed by '/home/user/ros_catkin_ws/devel_isolated/rospack/lib/librospack.so'.  Stop.
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:365: recipe for target 'CMakeFiles/rospack.dir/all' failed
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/rospack.dir/all] Error 2
Makefile:138: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
<== Failed to process package 'rospack': 
  Command '['/home/user/ros_catkin_ws/install_isolated/env.sh', 'make', '-j1', '-l1']' returned non-zero exit status 2

Reproduce this error by running:
==> cd /home/user/ros_catkin_ws/build_isolated/rospack && /home/user/ros_catkin_ws/install_isolated/env.sh make -j1 -l1

Command failed, exiting.

• tried the same with leethomason/tinyxml2#496 and mikaelarguedas/tinyxml2/tree/4.0.1-patch but keep ending up with the same result.
• currently rebuilding the ROS workspace with execution of
  rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro melodic -y --os=debian:stretch
  and
  ./src/catkin/bin/catkin_make_isolated --install -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
  to include updated dependency.

The painful alternative seems to be replacing the header tag of the package.xml inside every single ROS package with
<package format="2" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://download.ros.org/schema/package_format2.xsd" >
Could this fix result in more errors on the go?

[heregoesmarcel]

Update:
Rebuilding the workspace with the mentioned commands did not fix the issue.

Went as far as to create a new workspace but walked into vcstools/wstool/issues/130 regarding wstool and vcstools which lead to not being able to setup the new ws.
Installing updated versions of vcstools and wstool from PyPi and current master builds did not manage to fix this.

Decided to roll all changes back and go with the XML tag workaround for all affected ROS packages and managed to properly execute all broken ROS shell commands.