title: can adjacent text nodes in the DOM be merged with Javascript?
body: <p>Suppose I have a sentence in the webpage DOM that when I examine it, consists of 3 text nodes followed by perhaps some element like BOLD or ITALIC.  I want to merge the text nodes into one text node, since having adjacent text nodes is meaningless - there is no reason to have them.  Is there a way to merge them easily?
  Thanks</p>