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XmlWriter - Create Empty Tag <tag></tag>

Hello everybody, im trying to serialize a class and everything works as expected, however, the empty string properties are being serialized like this:

<Element />

and i need it to be like this:

<Element></Element>

I saw that using the XmlTextWriter i could do such a thing, but since i am also using the XmlWriterSettings, im not sure how to do it.. here is how i am doing it right now:

XmlSerializer s = new XmlSerializer(typeof(MY_TYPE));
using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(File, FileMode.CreateNew))
{
          XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
          settings.Encoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1");
          settings.NewLineChars = Environment.NewLine;
          settings.ConformanceLevel = ConformanceLevel.Document;
          settings.Indent = true;
          using (XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(fs, settings))
          {
                        s.Serialize(writer, this);
           }
}

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Alfred A.

Since you are using XmlWriter, you can use XmlWriter.WriteFullEndElement Method

Check the link below:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmlwriter.writefullendelement.aspx

Alfred A.

Just to add in my previous comment, I didn't realise that you are trying to force XMLSerialization to produce the explicit closing tag. Check the link below:

http://bytes.com/topic/net/answers/178893-force-xmlserializer-use-explicit-closing-tags-zero-length-strings

I hope this helps.

Edgard Yamashita

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@Alfred1
I saw that link too.. but using the new XmlTextWritter like in there, i cant set the XmlWritterSettings like im doing today to configure the way the xml is being generated...

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