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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)

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

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:
and
For elements of the form:
you should use the find expression: <([^</>"=]+?)/>


Regards,
Sorin