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<p>IIRC some consuming app weren't happy, otherwise I wouldn't have added this special case. Need to check later, what exactly the issue was.</p>
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<p>Ah it does cause you to get an element with no content (<code><node...></code></code>) rather than an empty element (<code><node/></code>) but any client that can't cope with that is just buggy!</p>

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