This commit improves both the javadoc and the reference guide section on the Elvis SpEL operator to clarify that in addition to null objects, empty Strings also lead the operator to evaluate to its second operand.

The reference guide's advanced snippet is modified to use such an empty String instead of null to make that behavior prominent with some code.

See gh-30318 Closes gh-30352

Comment From: simonbasle

draft while waiting for reference guide changes that we might need to adapt to / rebase on.

Comment From: simonbasle

Rebased on top of Antora changes, ready for merge.