Task.getPayload / getPayloadAsElement not returning elements with no values

Question

I am using BPEL 10.1.3.1.
So, I have a task payload that has 9 elements. When I retrieve the payload as an element, it only contains those nodes that actually had data. So, if I had an element like <creator/>, this element is not returned when using either of the getPayload methods.
Is this a bug? or intended functionality? I don't really like this functionality if it is working the way it is intended....
Input welcome.
BradW

Answer 1

Did you find the solution to this problem.
For my payload the values are null also.
for(int i=0; i<task.getPayload().getContent().size(); i++){
XMLElement xMLElement = (XMLElement)task.getPayload().getContent().get(i);
for(int j=0; j<xMLElement.getChildNodes().getLength(); j++){
System.out.println("getChildNodes map " +
xMLElement.getChildNodes().item(j).getAttributes().toString()
+ " values " +xMLElement.getChildNodes().item(j).getNodeValue()
+ " name " + xMLElement.getChildNodes().item(j).getNodeName());
Any advice would be greatly appeciated