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There is a difference between 'empty' and 'not present'. Second, if it's a more complicated class, there might be no 'empty' representation.

Sjoerd
– Sjoerd

2015-03-19 15:33:08 +00:00
Commented Mar 19, 2015 at 15:33
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I strongly believe that there is no need for two separate classes for handling NULL and EMPTY representation. You could do those stuffs with a single class.

codeninja.sj
– codeninja.sj

2015-03-19 15:48:24 +00:00
Commented Mar 19, 2015 at 15:48
I appreciate this answer but it is off a bit from what I'm trying to do. Im actually wanting to author the xml files "from scratch". I'm not actually parsing or dealing with a DOM (although I may add parsing and DOM support later where the DOM is actually a facade).

Matthew James Briggs
– Matthew James Briggs

2015-03-19 16:27:22 +00:00
Commented Mar 19, 2015 at 16:27

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