Render Empty XML Elements as Parent Elements

Question

I have a strange requirement where an application consuming some XML that my application is generating actually needs empty elements to be serialized as parent elements. For exa

Answer 1

I extended XmlTextWriter so that I could override the WriteEndElement() method, forcing it to call WriteFullEndElement(). This did the trick.

Note: for anybody that saw my question update, please ignore. IE was rendering the XML in the shorthand form. As soon as I opened it in Notepad, I realized everything was working fine.

public class FullEndingXmlTextWriter : XmlTextWriter
{
    public FullEndingXmlTextWriter(TextWriter w)
        : base(w)
    {
    }

    public FullEndingXmlTextWriter(Stream w, Encoding encoding)
        : base(w, encoding)
    {
    }

    public FullEndingXmlTextWriter(string fileName, Encoding encoding)
        : base(fileName, encoding)
    {
    }

    public override void WriteEndElement()
    {
        this.WriteFullEndElement();
    }
}