Problem with pretty print

[Matthias Niggemeier]

Hi there!
I'm quite new in developing with Xerces, so I even don't know 
wether I'm in the right list or not.
I want to write a generated XML-File using the prettyprint-feature.
The only problem I have is that tags containing only whitespaces
are written as empty tags; e.g. <mytag> </mytag> results in <mytag />.
How can I stop this? (" " is a valid value for <mytag> and should be
included in the XML file).

Another question is: How can I escape ampersands? For example, I want
to have a tag "mytag" with the value "&#181;g/l".
When I write back this string it results in &amp;#181;g/l
How can I prevent ampersands being escaped on save? (How can I tell
the Writer that I know what I do when I put an ampersand in the
tagvalue?:-) )

Greetings
Matthias

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