diff --git a/packages/integrations/react/vnode-children.js b/packages/integrations/react/vnode-children.js
index 0b5738c2cce6..5fd421e67f71 100644
--- a/packages/integrations/react/vnode-children.js
+++ b/packages/integrations/react/vnode-children.js
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 import { parse, DOCUMENT_NODE, ELEMENT_NODE, TEXT_NODE } from 'ultrahtml';
 import { createElement, Fragment } from 'react';
 
-// https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/bbb9cb116dbf7b6247721aa0c4bcb6ec249aa8af/packages/react-dom-bindings/src/server/ReactFizzConfigDOM.js#L3593-L3617
-const selfClosingTags = ['area', 'base', 'br', 'col', 'embed', 'hr', 'img', 'keygen', 'meta', 'param', 'source', 'track', 'wbr']
-
 let ids = 0;
 export default function convert(children) {
 	let doc = parse(children.toString().trim());
@@ -11,21 +8,10 @@ export default function convert(children) {
 	let key = 0;
 
 	function createReactElementFromNode(node) {
-		if (node.isSelfClosingTag === true && Array.isArray(node.children) && node.children.length === 0) {
-			node.children = undefined;
-		}
-			
-		const childVnodes = Array.isArray(node.children)
+		const childVnodes = Array.isArray(node.children) && node.children.length
 			? node.children
-					.map((child) => {
-						if (child.type === ELEMENT_NODE) {
-							return createReactElementFromNode(child);
-						} else if (child.type === TEXT_NODE) {
-							// 0-length text gets omitted in JSX
-							return child.value.trim() ? child.value : undefined;
-						}
-					})
-					.filter((n) => !!n)
+					.map((child) => createReactElementFromNode(child))
+					.filter(Boolean)
 			: undefined;
 
 		if (node.type === DOCUMENT_NODE) {
@@ -33,6 +19,9 @@ export default function convert(children) {
 		} else if (node.type === ELEMENT_NODE) {
 			const { class: className, ...props } = node.attributes;
 			return createElement(node.name, { ...props, className, key: `${id}-${key++}` }, childVnodes);
+		} else if (node.type === TEXT_NODE) {
+			// 0-length text gets omitted in JSX
+			return node.value.trim() ? node.value : undefined;
 		}
 	}