Why doesn't xmlrpclib.dumps just dump an empty value instead of <nil/>?

[martin f krafft]

Hi,

xmlrpclib.dumps((None,), allow_none=True) yields

  '<params>\n<param>\n<value><nil/></value></param>\n</params>\n'

Why doesn't it just yield

  '<params>\n<param>\n<value/></param>\n</params>\n'

Or even just

  '<params>\n<param/>\n</params>\n'

Those are valid XML and valid XML-RPC, but <nil/> isn't.

Thanks for any thoughts...

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