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

Scott Hanselman wrote a while back an article about stripping out empty elements from XML, and at a glance the code can be used for your purpose with a small alteration to the treatment of empty elements. He also explains why using RegEx is a bad idea.

I am pointing this out, as I don't know of a way to get XmlSerializer to do what you want.

Another possibility, though I don't really know much about WPF is using the XAML serializer - look at the System.Window.Markup namespace documentation.