Hi Neil,
"Neil Aggarwal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/04/2006 05:36:05 PM:
> Hello:
>
> I am using XMLSerializer with OutputFormat to format
> my XML into a string using this code:
>
> /* document contains a Document object */
>
> CharArrayWriter writer = new CharArrayWriter();
> OutputFormat outputFormat = new OutputFormat("xml","utf-8",true);
> XMLSerializer serializer = new XMLSerializer(writer,outputFormat);
> serializer.serialize(document);
> writer.close();
>
> /* writer.toString() gives me the XML formatted in a string */
>
> When the text content of a tag is empty, I am getting
> this in the output:
>
> <TagName/>
>
> I would like to generate this output instead:
> <TagName></TagName>
>
> Any ideas?
The serializer will always write an element without content as an empty
tag. There's no configuration parameter for changing that behaviour though
I suppose you could try fooling the serializer into believing there is
content by attaching empty text nodes to each element you want written as
<TagName></TagName>.
> I know the first form is correct and conformant, but I don't control
> the other side's parsing code.
>
> Thanks,
> Neil
>
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