Getting all the text values in an XML node

Suppose I've got an XMLList that I'm working my way through and I want to quickly and easily get all the "text" from the node. In other works strip out all the <xmtag> mark up and possible attributes and just leave the content.

Is there an easy/fast way to do that?

<myNode>

     <title>The title of an event here</title>

     <presenter>Name and title of presenter here</presenter>

     <date startTime="Somedate" />

      <desc><![CDATA[Some text in here. It <b>might</b> have html or links or some such.]]></desc>

     <resources>

          <res>A list of some resources, downloads, etc.</res>

           <res>Some other site or some such</res>

     </resources>

</myNode>