prashob12 wrote:
Hello:

Please help me to create a macro:

I want to delete the follwoing:

<absatz>(<[^>]+>){1,20}</absatz> (empty elements)

but there is a condition i want to delete the above only when it comes in the following parent element i.e..
<rubrum>
....
</rubrum>

For e.g.
<rubrum>
<absatz><hervor typ="f"><?font Start ?>BUNDESARBEITSGERICHT</hervor></absatz>
<absatz><hervor typ="f"></hervor></absatz>
<absatz><hervor typ="f">URTEIL<?font Ende ?></hervor>
</rubrum>

The above should apply to all the XML files in a particular path.

Thanks in Advance

prashob12 wrote:
Thanks a lot for replying

I tried what u told, but the number of Empty elements present in the <rubrum> is many, so if i use the replacment option it deletes one instance at a time, and the number of files with such instances are also many, so it will be time consuming.

I created a macro to replace all empty elements in <rubrum> at one go:

document.selection.Find("<rubrum>",eeFindNext | eeFindReplaceRegExp);
document.selection.CharLeft(false,1);
editor.ExecuteCommandByID(4153);
document.selection.Find("</rubrum>",eeFindNext | eeFindReplaceRegExp);
document.selection.Replace("<absatz>(<[^>]+>){1,20}</absatz>","",eeFindNext | eeReplaceSelOnly | eeReplaceAll | eeFindReplaceRegExp);
document.selection.Replace("<absatz></absatz>","",eeFindNext | eeReplaceSelOnly | eeReplaceAll | eeFindReplaceRegExp);
document.selection.CharRight(false,1);

But i dont know how to make it run on all the files.
There are 1000's of such files.

Thanks in Advance!!