How to delete empty tags after xml-import

Hello collegues,
I'm totally new in this forum so excuse me if I make a mistake, but I've a little question.
I've imported text and images with a xml-import but sometimes empty tags (the colored invisible blocks) are in my text, with the result that I can't Find/Change on double-returns.
Does anybody know an awnser to this matter? I would love to write an apple-script that will find/change this so i don't have to look after all my pages.
Thank you very much in advance.

ThePictureCreator wrote:
...I can't Find/Change on double-returns.
What's your search query? I think you should be able to, with either a grep find of "\r+" or a normal text find of "^p^p". InDesign pretends like the tag-holding characters aren't there for the purpose of search. But you will lose the empty elements along with the extra returns. Maybe that is the problem?
Jeff

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Hi
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Regards
Ria

Hi Ria,
You can use if without else and check the field exist or not in the source and then map it to target.
This is a bit tricky & if you dont feel comfortable with it, then use advanced UDF, and explicitely check ResultList.SUPPRESS object and remove it in UDF and form an output stream.
You can use any of the two.
Regards,
Shri.
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Edited by: Mike Pokraka on Jul 28, 2008 5:05 PM

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