XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

Ittay Dror wrote:
> i want to write an xhtml document with Serializer. This class writes nodes with no children in 
> the <.../> form, rather than <...></...> form.
>
> this causes the document to be rendered differently. specifically, it writes a span tag as 
> <span.../>, where i need it to be <span...></span> (don't ask me why, it's 
> just like this)
>
> can i control Serializer, so it outputs nodes in the "verbose" form? maybe 
> per node name?

There's no switch for this. However it should be easy enough to write a 
subclass of Serializer that does this. All you need to do is override 
writeEmptyElementTag in the manner described in the JavaDocs:

    protected void writeEmptyElementTag(Element element)
      throws IOException {
        writeStartTag(element);
        writeEndTag(element);
    }

You shouldn't need to change anything else.

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