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Answer 1

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The best I could come up with was...

var emptyElements = 
    from element in document.Descendants()
    where !element.Attributes().Any() && !element.Elements().Any()
    select element;


while(emptyElements.Any())
    emptyElements.Remove();

Then I realized that was a bad idea, it was removing too much but I didn't take the time to figure out why.

Dave 2009-11-04 14:28:20

Answer 2

+1 A:

Checking if element doesn't have attributes and doesn't have elements is not enough. You need to check if an element is truly empty (absolutely no content). XElement has a property, that actually helps you do that - XElement.IsEmpty.

var document = XDocument.Parse(@"<body><ul><li><a href='#'>Joy</a></li></ul><p>Hi.</p></body>");
document.Descendants("a").Remove();

var emptyElements = from element in document.Descendants()
                    where element.IsEmpty
                    select element;

while (emptyElements.Any())
    emptyElements.Remove();

Mindaugas Mozūras 2010-08-18 06:46:15

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