title: Parse XML Self-Closing Tags with Text
body: <p>Hey everyone I am trying to parse this part of an XML file I have. The problem I am encountering is that the text contains a lot of self-closing tags. I can't remove those tags because they are providing me with some indexing detail.
  How can I get access to the text without all the "Node" tags?</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;TextWithNodes&gt;
   &lt;Node id="0"/&gt;A TEENAGER &lt;Node
  id="11"/&gt;yesterday&lt;Node id="20"/&gt; accused his parents of cruelty
  by feeding him a daily diet of chips which sent his weight
  ballooning to 22st at the age of l2&lt;Node id="146"/&gt;.&lt;Node
  id="147"/&gt;
  &lt;/TextWithNodes&gt;
  </code></pre>