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Frijoles
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2 years ago
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XML Generator is removing empty elements

Hello, I'm trying to send some XML to a REST endpoint, but it looks like the XML Generator is removing any element that is empty. For example: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rootTest> <f...
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    Frijoles
    2 years ago

    Wanted to follow up with this since we found a workaround (a support ticket helped). Instead of an empty tag, you can put a token in XML and then do a replaceAll/replace function in a mapper directly after the XML to set the token to an empty string:   

    $foo.replaceAll("[TOKEN]", "")

    This worked. Not as clean as we would like, but it solves the problem.

Frijoles's avatar
Frijoles
New Contributor II
2 years ago

Wanted to follow up with this since we found a workaround (a support ticket helped). Instead of an empty tag, you can put a token in XML and then do a replaceAll/replace function in a mapper directly after the XML to set the token to an empty string:   

$foo.replaceAll("[TOKEN]", "")

This worked. Not as clean as we would like, but it solves the problem.