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Asked: 2026-05-30T02:51:46+00:00

We are migrating from one content system into another and have tons of HTML

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We are migrating from one content system into another and have tons of HTML where there are lines, for example, like this:

<p style="text-align: justify;"><i> </i></p>

I am looking for a way to strip HTML with Python where there is no text output to the screen. So a line similar to this would be stripped.

And, this is just one of MANY examples of lines where there is no text output. So, I would need to find them all to strip. I don’t have to worry about images, movies, etc. since only text was possible in our old content management system.

BTW, the vast majority of the lines either start with a p tag or a div tag (ignoring leading whitespace).

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  1. Editorial Team

    In case the HTML is also a well-formed XML document (This can be done in a pre-pass with a tool like HTML-Tidy), this transformation:

    <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>

 <xsl:template match="node()|@*">
  <xsl:copy>
   <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
  </xsl:copy>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="*[not(normalize-space(.))]"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>

    when applied on any such XML document — for example:

    <html>
 <body>
   Welcome.
   <p style="text-align: justify;"><i> </i></p>
 </body>
</html>

    produces the wanted result in which any element whose string value is empty or is all whitespace, is deleted:

    <html>

   <body>
      Welcome.


   </body>

</html>
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