tag with one white-space body

Hello,

We've used xmlbeans to generate classes to parse xml complying with OTA
xsd.

I've a string with a tag containing only one white-space (x20)

<QCat> </QCat>

after using xmlbean.parse() the tag is

<QCat></QCat>

Is there a way to preserve the content of the tag?

Many many thanks

Best regards.

Bartolomeo Nicolotti