XML Reformat whitespace

Hi, I'm using JDeveloper 10.1.3.0.4
Is there anyway of configuring the IDE so that when reformating an XML document, whitepsace between elements is not artificially created when it doesnt exist in the firstplace.
eg.
<Author><FirstName>John</FirstName><LastName>Smith</LastName></Author>
reformats to
<Author>
<FirstName>John</FirstName>
<LastName>Smith</LastName>
</Author>
If you read http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/wang-whitespace.html it points out that these structures are not equivilent.
My defenition of reformat would include having the finished product equivilent to what you started with - otherwise it provides little use.
Thanks heaps.

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: : Im am working on a XML parser for loading data from some
back
: : end systems into an Oracle 8i database. I am using the SAX
: : parser for this purpose. After doing some tests with larger
: : amounts of XML data (> 1M), I found some unexpected
behaviour.
: : The parser sometimes splits up character data into two
chunks
: of
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