Merging forms in Infopath

[Indy]

I have 3 forms based on a template created in Infopath. All 3 of the forms
are based on the one template, and all of these documents are stored in a
Sharepoint form library. When I attempt to merge these 3 forms, I end up
with a total of 4 rows in the repeating sections of the merged form. For
example, the XML Output of the date field in the merged form is as follows:

<Date></Date>
<Date>2005-07-13</Date>
<Date>2005-07-13</Date>
<Date>2005-07-14</Date>

There are 4 date fields, with the first one being blank. Is there any way I
can prevent it from including this blank field in the merged form, as there
are only 3 forms, not 4.

 

[Sultan]

I am also facing same problem. Did you fix this problem, if yes please share
it with me.

Thanks in advance.

 

[JR]

I'm not sure if there is a better method of doing this; but I ended up writing custom code for the OnMergeRequest event handler that simply removes any blank rows.