I am trying to write a Unix Shell Script command that would clean up the XML files by eliminating spaces between the nodes...example:

James

the command has to make:
James

anyone has clues ???
Thanks

I'm not sure of your requirements, but it looks like you want to eliminate blank lines. You can eliminate null lines (entirely empty) with either:

grep -v '^$' myfile > mynewfile
awk 'length!=0' myfile > mynewfile

Or if you want to eliminate both the null lines and lines that contain only white space, you could use:

awk 'NF>0' myfile > mynewfile

Hi!
If u want to remove space, u can use the following command:-
sed "s/ *//g"

i.e sed "s/*//g" {ur input file}
This will output the required file on screen.
U can redirect this to any file using >

For ex: sed "s/ *//g" myxml >reqxml

If u want to remove spaces or tabs, then u can use this (Pls try following...I am not sure at this moment for this)

sed "s/[ ]*//g" {Input File}

i.e sed "s/[]*//g" {input file}

I hope this will server u

I think you have to read the XML document using XML processor/parser and then write it again.
I think that using unix commands will not be that useful.