Absense of xml tags and blank text fields

I am a new user to LiveCycle and am trying to create a document that will not display the text field if the corresponding xlm tag is not provided.
I seem to be able to do this if the text field is wrapped in a subform, but as this document has many text fields it simply would not be efficient to wrap every field independantly. Currently, I have subforms consisting of multiple text fields. Each of these text fields are bound and the subform they are in is flowed and is set to repeating with no minimum or maximum records required.
Any ideas?
Thanks

Hi,
I don't think there is a particularly easy way to do this, you can add some code in the initialise event, something like;
if (this.dataNode.isNull)
this.presence = "hidden";
You can use this.dataNode to reference the value the field is bound to..
If you have lots of fields and If your users are using Reader 9.1 then you can use event propagation,
http://blogs.adobe.com/formfeed/2011/06/propagating-events.html.
Otherwise you can try doing something with proto elements.
Hope this helps,
Bruce

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