Better Solution for null properties

[Nathan Maves]

Is there a better way for dealing with null attributes?
Currently I have to do something like..
<insert id="insertA">
        insert into A (
                id
                <isNotNull prepend="," property="name">
                name
                </isNotNull>
        ) values (
                #id#
                <isNotNull prepend="," property="name">
                #name#
                </isNotNull>
        )
</insert>
or
<insert id="insertA">
        insert into A (
                id,
                name
        ) values (
                #id#
                <isNotNull prepend="," property="name">
                #name#
                </isNotNull>
                <isNull prepend="," property="name">
                null
                </isNotNull>
        )
</insert>
This become very tedious when you have 10+ columns that might be null.  
Why does this happen with Oracle?  Is there anyway that iBatis could 
check if the property was null and if so call the setNull() of a 
prepared statement?  I am sure that I am over simplifying the process 
but just thought I would throw it out there.

Nathan