Is there anyway I can have a property field only update if the field is != null ?

<property
name="propertyName" (1)
column="column_name" (2)
type="typename" (3)
update="true|false" (4)
insert="true|false" (4)
formula="arbitrary SQL expression" (5)
access="field|property|ClassName" (6)
lazy="true|false" (7)
unique="true|false" (8)
not-null="true|false" (9)
optimistic-lock="true|false" (10)
generated="never|insert|always" (11)
node="element-name|@attribute-name|element/@attribute|."
index="index_name"
unique_key="unique_key_id"
length="L"
precision="P"
scale="S"
/>

I didn't see anything from the documentation.....

Thanks!