Sorry for the poor phrasing.  What I'd like to do is use an XPath expression
in some script to extract a nodeset of ONLY those nodes that meet the
criteria. In otherwords, can an XPath expression look something like

var objNodes = objXML.selectNodes("//VALUE[normalize-space(.)='']")

Yes, this will get you
  <VALUE>dummy text</VALUE>
  <VALUE>more text</VALUE>

-----Original Message-----

It's considered good netiquette to trim unnecessary quoted
text.