The online xml2rfc converter at https://xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org/
requires certain XML elements to be non-empty, including various
optional parts of the authors' addresses. So this change skips
the whole of the optional element if its contents are empty.
The online xml2rfc converter at https://xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org/ requires certain XML elements to be non-empty, including various optional parts of the authors' addresses. So this change skips the whole of the optional element if its contents are empty.