cannot insert a blank or empty xml element through dom4j entity mode -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-6878 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-6878 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Bug Components: core Affects Versions: 3.6.8, 3.6.1 Reporter: Pascal favre Priority: Blocker Attachments: blankXmlElement.tar.gz I'd like to insert or update data through xml data. I cannot send empty element for the type Integer, Long, ... to reset or nullify fields that are nullable. the following execption is thrown: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "" at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException.java:48) at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:468) the data I'd like to nullify: <PersonBlankValue> <agePerson xsi:nill=\"true\" xmlns:xsi= \"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\"/> <name> .... </PersonBlankValue> I provide you a simple test case -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira