Re: broken text surrounding an entity I want to drop?

My source XML file contains a myriad of <A id=something></A> entities which
for the most part I wish to drop. I am using an identity template plus the
following to do this:

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<!-- drop A tags which have no content -->
<xsl:template match="A">
<xsl:if test="* or text() or string(.)">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
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Unfortunately and unsurprisingly this is too naC/ve; it drops the <a> tags OK
but leaves me with broken text.

<xsl:template match="text()">
	<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
</xsl:template>

regards,
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