diff --git a/pymods/record.py b/pymods/record.py
index 6f590d8..3598e0f 100644
--- a/pymods/record.py
+++ b/pymods/record.py
@@ -780,8 +780,8 @@ def get_element(self, elem, delimiter=None):
         """
         if self.find('{0}'.format(elem)) is not None:
             if delimiter is None:
-                return [item.text for item in self.findall('{0}'.format(elem))]
+                return [item.text for item in self.findall('{0}'.format(elem)) if item.text]
             else:
                 return [split_text.strip()
-                        for item in self.findall('{0}'.format(elem))
+                        for item in self.findall('{0}'.format(elem)) if item.text
                         for split_text in item.text.split(delimiter)]
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 6863018..ed90e62 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name="pymods",
-    version="2.0.8",
+    version="2.0.9",
     packages=find_packages(exclude=['tests*']),
     install_requires=['lxml >= 2.3'],
     author="Matthew Miguez",