Question

This is the same question as:
Explicit Element Closing Tags with System.Xml.Linq Namespace

but I use Net 4.0 and the answers do not work anymore.

The problem is I save tags with no values really, and my output XML looks like this:

<field/>

But what I need is always opening and closing tag, i.e.

<field></field>

QUESTION: how to do it?

Edits

1

Adding empty nodes:

if (field_xml == null) // always true, because I create the file for the first time
{
    field_xml = new XElement(XMLKeys.field,String.Empty);
    table_xml.Add(field_xml);
}
field_xml.SetAttributeValue(XMLKeys.name, field_info.Name);
// ... setting some other attributes of this node

and later, saving the xml:

var writer = new FullEndingXmlTextWriter(parameters.OutputFilename, Encoding.UTF8);
root_xml.Save(writer);

FullEndingXmlTextWriter is the specialized class which The Evil Greebo pointed out (it is supposed to force explicit closing tag).

Answer 1

I can’t reproduce your error. This works as expected in both 4.0 and 3.5 netFX:

namespace ExplicitXmlClosingTags
{
    using System.Xml;
    using System.Xml.Linq;

    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            const string ElementRoot = "RootElement";
            const string ElementChild = "ChildElement";
            const string AttributeChild = "ChildAttribute";

            XDocument xDoc = new XDocument();
            XElement root = new XElement(ElementRoot);
            XElement child = new XElement(ElementChild, string.Empty);
            root.Add(child);

            child.SetAttributeValue(AttributeChild, "AttrValue");
            xDoc.Add(root);

            XmlWriterSettings xws = new XmlWriterSettings();
            xws.Indent = true;
            using (XmlWriter xw = XmlWriter.Create("out.xml", xws))
            {
                xDoc.Save(xw);    
            }
        }
    }
}

producing following content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RootElement>
  <ChildElement ChildAttribute="AttrValue"></ChildElement>
</RootElement>