>   1. It contains no text (whitespace counts as empty)
>      and
>   2. It has no attributes
>    and
>   3. It has no children
> 
translates more or less exactly from english to xslt:


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

Note you can't have an empty tag in XML. You could in SGML: <> and </>
the SGML parser would infer the required element that must be starting
or finishing.

David

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