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

You could solve it with a regular expression, making it a two-pass process.

string xml = "element foo=\"bar\" />"

string pattern = @"<(?\w+)(?\b.*)/>";
string substitute =  @"<${elem} ${body}>";

Regex regex = new Regex(pattern);
string goodresult = regex.Replace(xml, substitute);