Improved collapsing of adjacent whitespace and removal of empty elements in search plugin

material/plugins/search/plugin.py

@@ -444,7 +444,20 @@ class Parser(HTMLParser):
                 if self.section.el in self.context:
                     data = self.section.title
 
+                # Search for corresponding opening tag
+                index = data.index(f"<{tag}>")
+                for i in range(index + 1, len(data)):
+                    if not data[i].isspace():
+                        index = len(data)
+                        break
+
+                # Remove element if empty (or only whitespace)
+                if len(data) > index:
+                    while len(data) > index:
+                        data.pop()
+
                 # Append to section title or text
+                else:
                     data.append(f"</{tag}>")
 
     # Called for the text contents of each tag
@@ -477,6 +490,11 @@ class Parser(HTMLParser):
                     escape(data, quote = False)
                 )
 
+        # Collapse adjacent whitespace
+        elif data.isspace():
+            if not self.section.text or not self.section.text[-1].isspace():
+                self.section.text.append(data)
+
         # Handle everything else
         else:
             self.section.text.append(

src/plugins/search/plugin.py

@@ -444,7 +444,20 @@ class Parser(HTMLParser):
                 if self.section.el in self.context:
                     data = self.section.title
 
+                # Search for corresponding opening tag
+                index = data.index(f"<{tag}>")
+                for i in range(index + 1, len(data)):
+                    if not data[i].isspace():
+                        index = len(data)
+                        break
+
+                # Remove element if empty (or only whitespace)
+                if len(data) > index:
+                    while len(data) > index:
+                        data.pop()
+
                 # Append to section title or text
+                else:
                     data.append(f"</{tag}>")
 
     # Called for the text contents of each tag
@@ -477,6 +490,11 @@ class Parser(HTMLParser):
                     escape(data, quote = False)
                 )
 
+        # Collapse adjacent whitespace
+        elif data.isspace():
+            if not self.section.text or not self.section.text[-1].isspace():
+                self.section.text.append(data)
+
         # Handle everything else
         else:
             self.section.text.append(