How to prevent empty values from loading as tables instead of nulls when load is an xml file

[mertzdj]

I'm loading similar query with multiple inputs as Xml.Tables(Web.Contents(...

When I drill down, often times empty xml tags come in as "Table" instead of as null values or empty string.  How can I blanket load and do expands that generate as nulls instead of empty tables.  

When they return to Excel they show up as text "Table".

[amirshiloh]

i have added the following lines at the end of my Power Query:
#"ReplaceEmptyTables"= Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Sorted Rows",{{"SampleColumn1", type text},{"SampleColumn2", type text},{"SampleColumn3", type text}}),
#"Replaced Errors" = Table.ReplaceErrorValues(ReplaceEmptyTables, {{"SampleColumn1", ""}, {"SampleColumn2", ""},{"SampleColumn3", ""}})

[Anonymous]

Hi @mertzdj ,

To replace empty XML tags with null values or empty strings, you can use the Xml.Tables function in combination with the Table.ReplaceValue function.

let
    Source = Xml.Tables(Web.Contents("https://example.com")),
    ReplaceEmptyTables = Table.ReplaceValue(Source, {}, null, Replacer.ReplaceValue, {"Column1", "Column2", "Column3"})
in
    ReplaceEmptyTables

In this example, we first load the XML data using the Xml.Tables function. Then, we use the Table.ReplaceValue function to replace any empty tables in the specified columns with null values. The Replacer.ReplaceValue option tells the function to replace the empty tables with the specified value, which in this case is null. You can also replace empty tables with an empty string by replacing null with "".

Best Regards,

Stephen Tao

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