Why doesn't xmlrpclib.dumps just dump an empty value instead of <nil/>?

[martin f krafft]

also sprach martin f krafft <madduck at madduck.net> [2008.03.16.1421 +0100]:
> Why doesn't it just yield
> 
>   '<params>\n<param>\n<value/></param>\n</params>\n'
> 
> Or even just
> 
>   '<params>\n<param/>\n</params>\n'

There's a difference between those two. The first one has an empty
string value ('') while the second one pretty clearly says that
there is a parameter but has no value.

Why <nil/>?

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