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Re: empty element

From: David Massart <david.massart_at_longboy.eun.org>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 12:57:29 +0200

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 06:45:12PM +0800, Robert Lowe wrote:
> OK, how about xmlHeader.setMessageId("")?
>
> This might generate <messageId></mesageId> rather than <messageId/>, but
> they are logically equivalent.
>

The problem is that the type of the empty element is not necessarily a String.
Actually, in my current project it can be a rather sofisticated complexType.

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> > Quoting Robert Lowe <rmlowe_at_rmlowe.com>:
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> > >  How about xmlHeader.setMessageId(null)?
> >
> > In this case the element is completly absent, not empty.
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> > >