New submission from Ariel Poliak :
As it stands in Hg, when the write() method of an xml.etree.ElementTree object
is called, and a tag within the XML tree has no child tags or defined text, the
tag is written using the short notation "".
Whether or not the short notation is used
Ariel Poliak added the comment:
To answer eli.bendersky's questions:
1. That's just the name of the file with my changes in it.
I pulled the original file from Hg, copied it to "ElementTree_new.py", made my
changes, and created a patch from the two.
2. I'm n
Ariel Poliak added the comment:
Made a new patch.
This one contains changes for xml.etree.ElementTree for cpython, jython, and
stackless.
It also contains changes to Modules/_elementtree.c for cpython and stackless.
The changes within this patch do not change the signature for the _serialize_
Ariel Poliak added the comment:
Ideally, this would be taken care by the _serialize_xml() with a parameter
specified when called from within write().
However, the signature for the _serialize_xml() function cannot be changed, as
it needs to match the signature for the rest of the _serialize_
