Can an XML serializer output empty tags?

Question

I am using an XML serializer. I would like it to convert all my object objects, but it only seems to display tags when there is a value.

How can I get it to display empty tags?

Answer 1

Take a look at a few solutions to this problem:

http://danshultz.blogspot.com/2008/02/xmlserialization-nullempty-elements.html

Answer 2

If I understand correctly, then not without the implementation of IXmlSerializable (which is not fun, not there). There are things like ShouldSerialize* / *Specified templates, but it still won't write anything for null (even if you return true).