if there are no data when writing an element is creates the tag like this

<customer/>

but i would like it to write

<customer>
</customer>

any property i can set or something else i could do ??

gusse.net wrote:

if there are no data when writing an element is creates the tag like this
>
<customer/>
>
but i would like it to write
>
<customer>
</customer>
>
any property i can set or something else i could do ??

<customer/>
is an emtpy element while
<customer>
</customer>
is not an empty element but rather an element that has a text node with
white space as its child node. So you would need to write out the white
space with WriteElementString for instance

xmlWriter.WriteElementString("customer", "\r\n\t");

But usually if the element is meant to be empty you should make sure
that is marked up as empty (e.g. <customer/or <customer></customer>),
introducing white space content changes the semantics.

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