From 22b51a4b7b8209e1f84c8914a6ebf6225ff62497 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 09:42:10 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] script-publish.py: Drop empty text chunks

Firefox 10.0.11 was having trouble with:

  <span style="..." />

Which, instead of being a no-op, was changing the default styling of
every element after that tag.
---
 posts/script/script-publish.py | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/posts/script/script-publish.py b/posts/script/script-publish.py
index b772e8b..bd64c81 100755
--- a/posts/script/script-publish.py
+++ b/posts/script/script-publish.py
@@ -492,6 +492,15 @@ class ControlParser (object):
                 i += 1
         return chunks
 
+    def _drop_empty_text(self, chunks):
+        i = 0
+        while i < len(chunks):
+            if isinstance(chunks[i], str) and not chunks[i]:
+                chunks.pop(i)
+            else:
+                i += 1
+        return chunks
+
     def _remove_operating_system_commands(self, chunks):
         i = 0
         while i < len(chunks):
@@ -600,6 +609,7 @@ class ControlParser (object):
         chunks = self._drop_clear_line(chunks)
         chunks = self._collapse_adjacent_newlines(chunks)
         chunks = self._merge_adjacent_text(chunks)
+        chunks = self._drop_empty_text(chunks)
         chunks = self._style_chunks(chunks)
         previous = element
         last_chunk = None
-- 
2.26.2