[Hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Created: (HHH-1899) return empty elements or attributes for null property values in EntityMode.DOM4J

[Bill S. (JIRA) <no...@at...>]

return empty elements or attributes for null property values in EntityMode.DOM4J
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         Key: HHH-1899
         URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-1899
     Project: Hibernate3
        Type: Improvement

    Versions: 3.1    
 Environment: Windows2000
    Reporter: Bill Salvucci
    Priority: Minor


Please provide a configuration option to make hibernate return an empty node (or attribute with empty string) for properties that have a null value?

For example

class Person {
Long id;
String firstName;
String lastName;
}

1,Bill,Salvucci
2,,Smith

Currently the xml document returned would look like:
<Person>
<id>1</id>
<firstName>Bill</firstName>
<lastName>Salvucci</lastName>
</Person>
<Person>
<id>2</id>
<lastName>Smith</lastName>
</Person>


I would like it to look like:
<Person>
<id>1</id>
<firstName>Bill</firstName>
<lastName>Salvucci</lastName>
</Person>
<Person>
<id>2</id>
<firstName/>
<lastName>Smith</lastName>
</Person>

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