How to find empty elements in xml using Node.js?

Question

I am searching empty xml tag. For e.g.,

  <employee>
     <name></name>
  </employee>
  <employee>
      <name>abc</name>
   </employee>

Here how to find empty tag(name tag) using Node.js?

Could you use XPath? stackoverflow.com/questions/13703478/… — cmbuckley
– cmbuckley, Commented Jun 6, 2015 at 16:07

3 revs, 2 users 77% · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-06 16:03:43Z

1

You have to traverse through all the relevant tags and check their content. If the content is found to be null then the tag is empty. Below is a piece of code to help you along the way.

  var emptytext=txtElement[0].childNodes[0];
  if(emptytext===null)
  {
     alert("Text is empty");
  }

edited Jun 6, 2015 at 16:03

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Robert Harvey Over a year ago

Thanks for the edit. The answer is basically a transplant of the answer that the OP put in his question; see the edit history.

Harry Over a year ago

Oh dear. Sorry, I didn't see that.

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