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Remove Empty XML Nodes

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May. 15, 07 · Code Snippet
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Remove nodes like  (without attributes & without children)

public static void RemoveEmptyNodes(XmlDocument doc)
{
  XmlNodeList nodes = doc.SelectNodes("//node()");
            
  foreach (XmlNode node in nodes)
    if ((node.Attributes.Count == 0) && (node.ChildNodes.Count == 0))
      node.ParentNode.RemoveChild(node);
}
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