MyFaces renders a space in - can I turn that off?

[Randahl Fink Isaksen]

MyFaces seems to follow the browser compatibility recommendations of 
XHTML and outputs a space inside empty elements like this:

<br /> instead of <br/>
These recommendations were written back in 2000 (as can be seen here 
http://www.w3.org/TR/html/#C_2), and today I would like to output normal 
XML in which there is not a space inside empty elements.

Is it possible to configure MyFaces to render empty elements without spaces?

Randahl