How to ignore white spaces

[Swetha Nekkanti]

Hi,

 I am pretty new to xerces-c. I am trying to use DOM to extract some data 
from an XML file,but DOM does not ignore the white spaces between 2 elements 
and creates text nodes.How do tell the parser to ignore them ?I also have a 
schema for the XML document but it gives me unknown element error only for 
the root element.Can anyone tell me what could be wrong ?

Thanks.,
Swetha