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

You could try adding the XMLElementAttribute like [XmlElement(IsNullable=true)] to that member and also set in the get/set property something like this:

[XmlElement(IsNullable = true)] 
public string Data 
{ 
    get { return string.IsNullOrEmpty(this.data) ? string.Empty : this.data; } 
    set 
    { 
        if (this.data != value) 
        { 
            this.data = value; 
        } 
    } 
} 
private string data;

And so you will not have:

You will have this on render: