[jdom-interest] XMLOutputter and empty elements

[Nick Crossley]

For various reasons (post processing by other tools that are not proper XML
parsers),
I need to have empty elements in my XML shown as <TAG></TAG> and not as
<TAG/>.

I am doing this by extending from XMLOutputter, and redefining printElement.
However, with the current structure of printElement, I have to repeat a lot
of code
I really do not want to know about, in the handling of name spaces.

It would be convenient if there was an option not to abbreviate empty
elements,
or if printElement was restructured to make subclassing more convenient.

Nick Crossley.
ndjc at continuus.com