Prevent self closing tags in XmlSerializer when no data is present

Question

When I serialize the value : If there is no value present in for data then it\'s coming like below format.

  
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Answer 1

In principal, armen.shimoon's answer worked for me. But if you want your XML output pretty printed without having to use XmlWriterSettings and an additional Stream object (as stated in the comments), you can simply set the Formatting in the constructor of your XmlTextWriter class.

public MyXmlTextWriter(string filename) : base(filename, Encoding.UTF8)
{
    this.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;
}

(Would have posted this as a comment but am not allowed yet ;-))