XML : How to tell XMLReader not to read empty Elements

I am parsing some older XML Data which does not contain self closing elements.

All the elements have end-elements as well

  <my-element someValue="xyz"></my-element>  <!-- instead of <my-element someValue"xyz" /> -->    

When I parse the file with XMLReader in C#, the reader does an extra .Read() for any "empty content" within start-tag and end-tag.

When I add the contest to a list, I always get the wanted content, and an empty content added to my list.

I could get over the problem by calling

  reader.Skip();     

manually in the end of my loop, but that's rather hacky if i would come across some data files which DO containt self closing tags.

How can I tell the reader to skip all empty elements?