Removing empty nodes from XML

The below XSLT can be used to remove the empty nodes from the XML file.

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes" />
<xsl:template match="node()|SDLT">
<xsl:if test="count(descendant::text()[string-length(normalize-space(.))>0] | @*[string-length(.)>0])">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="@*">
<xsl:copy />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="text()">
<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)" />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>