Why doesn't xmlrpclib.dumps just dump an empty value instead of<nil/>?

[martin f krafft]

Hi,

xmlrpclib.dumps((None,), allow_none=True) yields

'<params>\n<param>\n<value><nil/></value></param>\n</params>\n'

Why doesn't it just yield

'<params>\n<param>\n<value/></param>\n</params>\n'

Or even just

'<params>\n<param/>\n</params>\n'

Those are valid XML and valid XML-RPC, but <nil/isn't.

Thanks for any thoughts...

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[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:21:40 +0100, martin f krafft wrote:

Hi,

xmlrpclib.dumps((None,), allow_none=True) yields

'<params>\n<param>\n<value><nil/></value></param>\n</params>\n'

Why doesn't it just yield

'<params>\n<param>\n<value/></param>\n</params>\n'

Or even just

'<params>\n<param/>\n</params>\n'

Those are valid XML and valid XML-RPC, but <nil/isn't.

In XML-RPC there is no `None`, so there's the non standard `allow_none`
Option to allow `None` to be represented as ``<nil/>``.

And is an empty <param/or <value/really valid XML-RPC?

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch