From 8fd91c19a6edf0e92bc6079b19153947725be154 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Fr=C3=A9d=C3=A9ric=20P=C3=A9ters?= <fpeters@entrouvert.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 23:03:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] odf2legi: remove all blank/empty paragraphs (#3960)

---
 odf2legi/odf2legi.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/odf2legi/odf2legi.py b/odf2legi/odf2legi.py
index 8cfa0ec..e5abef3 100644
--- a/odf2legi/odf2legi.py
+++ b/odf2legi/odf2legi.py
@@ -401,7 +401,11 @@ def handle_paragraph(parent, elem):
             parent.attrib['role'] = align
 
     fill_inline(para, elem, invert_bg=invert_bg)
-    if not (para.text or para.tail or len(para.getchildren())):
+    if not para.text:
+        para_text = None
+    else:
+        para_text = para.text.replace(' ', '').replace('\t', '').replace(u'\xa0', '')
+    if not (para_text or para.tail or len(para.getchildren())):
         # remove empty paragraphs
         if para in parent:
             parent.remove(para)