Browsers neither shade nor apply borders to table cells that are empty, or that contain only tags but no content. By default, Mif2Go adds a single nonbreaking space between the opening and closing tags of each otherwise empty table-cell paragraph. This is appropriate for HTML and generic XML, but not for DITA XML or DocBook XML.
You can have Mif2Go do any of the following:
Retain images in otherwise empty paragraphs
Provide content for empty paragraphs
To omit empty paragraphs from table cells:
; RemoveEmptyTableParagraphs = No (default)
; or Yes (DITA/DocBook default)
RemoveEmptyTableParagraphs = Yes
When RemoveEmptyTableParagraphs=Yes, paragraph tags are omitted for empty paragraphs in table cells (except for preformatted text, where tags are always preserved). If a table cell is blank in FrameMaker (contains only empty paragraphs), in HTML output that cell would consist of only <td></td>.
When RemoveEmptyTableParagraphs=No, the tags for empty paragraphs are retained in table cells.
Retain images in otherwise empty paragraphs
If a table-cell paragraph that contains no text includes an image set to Run into Paragraph, you can specify that the image should be retained even when you have set RemoveEmptyTableParagraphs=Yes:
; RetainRuninImagesForEmptyParagraphs = No (default) or Yes
RetainRuninImagesForEmptyParagraphs=Yes
See §23.5.7 Retaining run-in images in otherwise empty paragraphs.
Provide content for empty paragraphs
To specify text content for otherwise empty paragraphs in table cells:
; EmptyTbCellContent = string to put in otherwise empty paragraphs
The default value for EmptyTbCellContent is a single nonbreaking space: .
To retain paragraph tags but omit text content for empty paragraphs in table cells:
RemoveEmptyTableParagraphs = No
When RemoveEmptyTableParagraphs=Yes, EmptyTbCellContent has no effect.
§21.3.10 Eliminating empty paragraphs in text