I have numerous places where I produce objects to xml and many times certain properties may be null. This causes a problem because I don't want to have to test for null every time I am dumping a property.
Allowing null values could break some code that assumes that the text value of a text node is never null. It also looks to me like creating text nodes with a null text does not add useful information; that just consumes memory. If you are trying to avoid the duplication of code that only creates Text node is a value is not null, would it possible to put that code in a helper method, or similar?
Alex
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