https://sourceforge.net/p/simple/bugs/27/Recent changes to 27: Inconsistant serialize and de-serialize with empty elementsenWed, 30 Nov 2011 10:04:58 -0000https://sourceforge.net/p/simple/bugs/27/<div class="markdown_content"><p>It's described here in detail:<br /> <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5648607/simpleframework-deserializing-an-empty-element-to-an-empty-string-instead-of-nu" rel="nofollow">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5648607/simpleframework-deserializing-an-empty-element-to-an-empty-string-instead-of-nu</a></p> <p>Personally, I think that for XML elements, reading and writing should be consistent and allow for a round-trip with identical results unless there's a good reason not to. It's surprising, then, that the contents of &lt;fooElement&gt;&lt;/fooElement&gt; are de-serialized into null (unexpected), while serializing null results in no element being written (expected) and an empty string results in &lt;fooElement&gt;&lt;/fooElement&gt; (also expected). Obviously I could write a Converter or Transformer to change this, but I can't think of a reason why this is not the default behaviour.</p></div>AnonymousWed, 30 Nov 2011 10:04:58 -0000https://sourceforge.netc71bed851d6803f328a996e474160d97fcfc60c4