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2650	XML Serialization of None TextFields does not use the <None/> tag	ben.khoo@…	Adrian Holovaty	"There appears to be a problem serializing TextFields where the value is None.

Refer to line 62 of xml_serializer.py
The expected return value from self.get_string_value(obj, field) is either a string or None however the get_string_value method does not appear to return None when appropriate.

The result of this oversight is that TextFields where the value is None is encoded as 

{{{
<field type=""TextField"" name=""comment"">None</field>
}}}

rather than

{{{
<field type=""TextField"" name=""comment"">
<None/>
</field>
}}}


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