How to create an XML text node with an empty string value (in Java)

Question

I am using a Transform object to save my XML file but it seems to drop empty text nodes. Is there any way to create (and keep) a text node with an empty string

Answer 1

If you consider the XML specs, an empty string '' is not really defined amongst the set of valid characters. so it is possible that the document builder simply ignores any occurrence of characters which are not valid.