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From: Moore,Michael (DARS)
Date: Dec 15, 2009 12:42PM

Where I see this most frequently is with MS Word documents and emails. The "blank" actually makes it easier to tell where a paragraph ends when editing or reading these documents. Most html and pdf tools will easily eliminate the empty paragraphs when converting the documents. A much bigger problem is improperly set up tables and missing headings.

I agree that there is really no reason to leave empty elements in html, especially since the can be quickly removed with any development tool worth using.

Mike Moore
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