Currently, <tag></tag> and <tag/> cause the exact same sequence of events: startElement() followed by endElement(), to be emitted by the SAX parser, making <tag></tag> indistinguishable from <tag/> for any SAX parsing event listener. This can cause problems in certain environments such as JSP (see https://glassfish.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=617 for details).

Please add new API that would allow SAX parsing event listener to distinguish <tag></tag> from <tag/>.