How to avoid optional elements

Question

In a partner wsdl I have a type as follows which is part of the request message:
<xs:complexType name="JobType">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="Addressees" type="tns:AddresseeType"/>
<xs:element name="EndUserNotification" type="tns:UserNotificationType" minOccurs="0"/>
<xs:element name="Comments" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0">
</xs:element>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
Before I invoke the partner I do some assignments. Although I have no assign statement for the EndUserNotification I see the emtpy element on the wire:
<EndUserNotification></EndUserNotification>
In my case this is not valid XML since the EndUserNotification contains elements which are not optional. In my view the element shouldn't be on the wire because it's defined with minOccurs="0". Any ideas?
Thanks
Yves

Answer 1

Well this is pretty painful. Now I've got 0 elements even when the minOccurs is defaulted to 1. Presumably I'd have to ora:genEmptyElem() for every element I use on both callouts and responses. That's not what I'm looking for anyway. If I can't get an unitialized minOccurs=0 element then I'd prefer to delete the extraneous entry. So from my perspective I still haven't found a viable technique to have my web services respond appropriately.
BTW, the table defines 'False' as the appropriate value, when it requires 'false' to get the configuration property to be realized.