Using the latest version of XWidget, all the old tags names/symbols are converted automatically to the new ones, so even the old widgets work fine! If you read the changelog of the last versions you will see that this issue is fixed.
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2The last version also supports the old xw package file type. So there is no compatibility problem. Tested a lot of times running old widgets.
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