Split elements at paragraph breaks

Using FM 8.0p277 on Windows XP.
I have a structured document with some content copied from unstructured documents and pasted into the structure. Inside some elements, there are paragraph breaks that do not coincide with the end of an element, for example:
<ul>
<li>First item</li>
<li>Second item¶
Third item</li>
</ul>
What I need to do is find every instance and split the elements at the ¶. While the latter part is easy (typing Esc, E, s), is there a way to find elements containing a paragraph break?
Thanks in advance for any helpful advice,
Johannes

Johannes,
It would be possible to create a program finding those instances, but it is not an easy task, because the ElementBegin and ElementEnd information is inside a paragraph. Well, maybe it would be enough to check whether the last string segment in a paragraph ends at the position of the paragraph end... unfortunately I have no time for experiments.
If you show Text Symbols and Element Boundaries (using the View menu), those paragraph breaks ¶ are rather easy to spot, because all others have one or more ] in front of them. Of course, if you have thousands of them...
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