Ron, Sounds like a good idea, why don't you add a property to SystemInfo to get the 'null' text. To allow the user to override this text we can just use an appSetting, say log4net.NullText.
Nicko > -----Original Message----- > From: Ron Grabowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 03 November 2005 06:08 > To: log4net-dev@logging.apache.org > Subject: constant for "(null)" > > Nicko, I think it would helpful to have a constant for when a > value cannot be accessed. Currently the value "(null)" is > used but its not centrally managed. I was using "null" in > some code I was writing and discovered that's inconsistent > with what the core uses. It may also be nice to make this > value settable via the config file. If someone is doing a lot > of database work they may want to change "(null)" to > "**NULL**" or "N/A" to avoid confusion with SQL NULL. > > >