Creating empty-tag-elements with JAXB?

Question

Hi,
is there any possibility to force JAXB to create empty-tag-elements? For example
<exampletag attribute="value" />
instead of
<exampletag attribute="value">
</exampletag>.
I really need to close my tags in the described way but have found no possibility to do so.
Thanks for your help
Daniel

Answer 1

Maybe this will help. I take advantage of the following behavior of the JAXB Marshaller to give me the form of output I require.
When a class (element) has "null" content, the output is of the form <tagger id="Unique"/>. When it has "empty" content, the output is of the form <tagger id="Unique"></tagger>.
Example code snippets:
For "null" content:
@XmlRootElement(name = "tagger")
public class TagClose
  public void setId(String id) { this.id = id; }
  public String getId() { return this.id; }
  @XmlValue
  String content = null;
  @XmlAttribute(name="id")
  String id = null;
}For "empty" content:
@XmlRootElement(name = "tagger")
public class TagClose
  public void setId(String id) { this.id = id; }
  public String getId() { return this.id; }
  @XmlValue
  String content = "";
  @XmlAttribute(name="id")
  String id = null;
}