ASP.NET 2.0 & Web.config: Is this correct <appSettings/>?

Question

I'm looking in Web.Config to add a simple (from a book) amendment -

<configuration>
 <appSettings>
   <add key="SupportEmail" value="[email protected]" />. 
 </appSettings>
</configuration>

However in the web.config I see there is only the following sign/bracket/block(?):

 <appSettings/>

I can't find the opening . And isn't that an incorreect way to write the block?

Or is this a way to tell me I can amend this and add my own opening and closing block?

Answer 1

You can indeed amend it (the format /> is a self closing tag which is valid if theres nothing in it)