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

[Michael Wieher]

2008/3/16, martin f krafft <madduck at madduck.net>:
>
> 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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No real idea, but to me it seems like a decent way to be double-sure that
you actually got the complete and correct dump-file... otherwise, you might
be just missing part of it... maybe there's a real reason though?
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