How to preserve an empty text node?

[Ian Hummel]

Hi everyone,

I need to create XML that looks like this whenever the value of "tag"  
is "" (the empty string):

<root>
        <tag></tag>
</root>

I've tried the following:

DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
Document d = db.newDocument();
Element root = d.createElement("root");
Element tag = d.createElement("tag");
d.appendChild(root);
root.appendChild(tag);
Text text = d.createTextNode("\t");
tag.appendChild(text);


but I always end up with XML like this:

<root>
        <tag/>
</root>


Is there a way to force empty text nodes to get "denormalized" ?

Thanks,

Ian.