Mad Writer does not handle duplicated elements correctly

[szymonlopaciuk]

A Madx sequence like this

mb: sbend, l:=1, angle:=0.1, k0:=0.2, k1=0.1;
ss: sequence, l:=2, refer=entry;
  mb, at=0;
  mb, at=1;
endsequence;

when loaded into Xsuite, and dumped back into mad format, gives an output like this:

ss: sequence, l=2.0;
  ss$start: marker, at=0.0;
  mb: sbend, l = 1.0, angle = 0.1, k0 = 0.2, e1 = 0.0, fint = 0.0, hgap = 0.0, e2 = 0.0, at=0.5;
  mb_entry:0: marker, at=1.0;
  mb:0: sbend, l = 1.0, angle = 0.1, k0 = 0.2, at=1.5;
  mb_exit:0: marker, at=2.0;
  ss$end: marker, at=2.0;
endsequence;

Which is not correct, as colons cannot be part of the element name in mad. We should decide how to handle these situations. I can see the following options:

• Replace the colon with something else – an underscore?
• Just repeat the name?

[rdemaria]

Regardless of madx, how do we want to handle repeated names? A typical case arises when identical cells are repeated.

[giadarol]

This is now corrected