[Simple-support] How "not" to serialize nulls

[Kevin J. <kjo...@in...>]

Hi,

When serializing an object that has a null data member, the resulting
xml has an empty element in it.  Is there a way to avoid this?

For example:

class foo {
      @Element
      private String bar;
}


if "bar" has a value of "2", the xml will look like this:

<foo>
	<bar>2</bar>
</foo>

but if "bar" has a value of NULL, the xml will look like this:

<foo>
	<bar></bar>
</foo>

Where I would prefer:

<foo>
</foo>

Is this possible?

thanks,

-kevin