Find empty elements

[escarole]

Does Oxygen have any tools that would help me find empty elements (and possibly remove them all) in a large document?

The application that created this document makes lots of empty elements for fields in which someone doesn't enter data.

(Newby here)

[escarole]

Or, of Oxygen doesn't, can someone suggest something else?

[sorin_ristache]

Hello,

You can remove the empty elements by executing a Find/Replace with the following regexp as the find expression: <([^</>"=]+?)>(\s*?)</(.+?)> and the empty string as the replace expression. This works for elements in the form:

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<elem1>   </elem1>

and

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<elem2>

      

       </elem2>

For elements of the form:

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<elem3 />

you should use the find expression: <([^</>"=]+?)/>


Regards,
Sorin