XML Generator is removing empty elements

[Frijoles]

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>
  <foo>bar</foo>
  <innerTest></innerTest>
  <secondTest />
</rootTest>

Using the code above, the output is missing the innerTest element and the secondTest element. This is causing a problem in the REST call since it's expecting that value even though it's empty. Is there a way to tell the snap to include empty elements?

[Frijoles · Accepted solution]

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.