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I assume that your source files don't have a document type declaration. If you
had one, then Xerces would have been able to safely infer that whitespace in
element content was ignorable.
However without a DTD, it is impossible to know for certain whether the
whitespace is part of mixed content and is significant or part of element
content and insignificant. Microsoft's parsers guess
that whitespace between start and end tags is ignorable, but that isn't always
that case (though it is most of the time). However, the safer assumption is
that the whitespace is significant.
If you don't want to provide a DTD but do want to suppress the production of
the whitespace nodes, probably the best approach would be to provide a filter
so that the SAX events that produce the
whitespace nodes don't ever get to the DOM builder.
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