cleaning Text Nodes

["Shastri Devdutt (Princeton -intern)" <Sh...@tce.com>]

Hi,

I am using the Xalan Package and parsing the document using Xerces. suppose
I write a doc like this:
<Tags> 
   <Tag1/>
   <Tag2>Hello</Tag2>
</Tags>	

while walking through the DOM Tree I get these Text Nodes (value=#text)
which typically i think are due to 
spaces,newlines or tabs and which I ignore.All I am interested are the
element nodes and the real text. Is there a way to cleanse the documents of
all these text nodes.

any help appreciated.
TIA,
-Dev.