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

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.