How can I customize the ending node style while saving an XmlDocument?

Simply put, after calling XmlDocument.Save method, I want the resulting xml look like this:

<somenode />

instead of this:

<somenode></somenode>

Can I achieve this?

I don't think how I constructed the XmlDocument matters. I just have such an instance, make开发者_C百科 some changes and save it. I want to know if it's possible to control the formatting for empty node.

Thanks, Nico

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It's done automatically for elements that have no child elements, and it's illegal for elements that have child elements... so I'm not sure what you're trying to do here.