XMLELEMENT forcing "short" empty tag?

I want to create an XML carrying data in attributes.
Therefor I'm creatinmg a lot of epmty tags:select XMLElement ("test", xmlattributes(1 as "test") ) from dual;
XMLELEMENT("TEST",XMLATTRIBUTES(1AS"TEST"))
<test test="1"></test>But I want the "short" form of empty tags: <tt><test test="1"/></tt>
How do I configure this?
bye
TPD

Thanks.
So lets advance to next level: ;o)
How do I supress "pretty print" at the same time?with tab1 as ( select 1 as id1, 'tab1' as attr from dual)
, tab2 as ( select 2 as id2, 1 as id1, 'tab2' as attr from dual )
select xmlserialize(document XMLElement ("test", xmlattributes(id1 as "ID",tab1.attr as name)
, XMLElement ("subtest",xmlattributes(id2 as "ID",tab2.attr as name) )
) as clob indent)
from tab1 join tab2 using(id1);
XMLSERIALIZE(DOCUMENTXMLELEMENT("TEST",XMLATTRIBUTES(ID1AS"ID",TAB1.ATTRASNAME),
<test ID="1" NAME="tab1">
<subtest ID="2" NAME="tab2"/>
</test>sould resolve toXMLSERIALIZE(DOCUMENTXMLELEMENT("TEST",XMLATTRIBUTES(ID1AS"ID",TAB1.ATTRASNAME),
<test ID="1" NAME="tab1"><subtest ID="2" NAME="tab2"/></test>bye
TPD

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