Java HTML / XML How to - Prevent empty xml elements are converted to self closing elements

Question

We would like to know how to prevent empty xml elements are converted to self closing elements.

Answer

import javax.xml.stream.XMLOutputFactory;
import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamWriter;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stax.StAXResult;
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import org.w3c.dom.Document;

public class Main {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    Document doc = null;
    XMLStreamWriter writer = XMLOutputFactory.newFactory()
        .createXMLStreamWriter(System.out);
    Transformer transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
    transformer.transform(new DOMSource(doc), new StAXResult(writer));
  }

}