Xml Serialization - Render Empty Element

Question

I am using the XmlSerializer and have the following property in a class

public string Data { get; set; }

which I need to be output exactly like

Answer 1

I was recently doing this and there is an alternative way to do it, that seems a bit simpler. You just need to initialise the value of the property to an empty string then it will create an empty tag as you required;

Data = string.Empty;