problems deleting last child

[majik]

When I have a portion of an XML file as follows:

<EMPLOYEE Name="Bob SMith">   
    <DUTIES TaskName="answer phones" Priority"1">
    <DUTIES TaskName="follow-up pending cases" Priority"2">
    <DUTIES TaskName="assist Tom" Priority"3">
</EMPLOYEE>

and I delete DUTIES one at a time, if I delete all within EMPLOYEE then save the file, it gets saved as:

<EMPLOYEE Name="Bob SMith" />   

instead of:
<EMPLOYEE>
</EMPLOYEE>

Is that how it should work? Is there a way to save it as
<EMPLOYEE>
</EMPLOYEE> ?? If so, do I need to delete the last child a certain way?

[majik]

Note: I accidentally left out an equal sign after Priority

Well, I did the obvious and tried adding a DUTIES tag and it does go back to the format
<EMPLOYEE Name="Bob SMith"> 
<DUTIES TaskName="something" Priority="something">
</EMPLOYEE>

[Lee Thomason]

majik--

This:

<EMPLOYEE Name="Bob SMith" />
and
<EMPLOYEE Name="Bob SMith">
</EMPLOYEE>

...mean exactly the same thing. the '/>' syntax closes a tag. TinyXML always prefers the concise syntax. If you want the more verbose expression, you could modify (or write your own) TiXmlPrinter.

lee