The <xsl:strip-space> and <xsl:preserve-space> Elements
The <xsl:stripspace> element causes the XSLT processor to strip all pure whitespace nodes (also called “expendable” whitespace nodes) from the input document. A pure whitespace node consists of only whitespace characters, without any other type of text. This element has only one attribute:
elements (mandatory). Specifies the elements from which to strip the whitespace. Set to a whitespace-separated list of NameTests (which are names or generic names with wildcards).
This element contains no content.
For example, to strip all whitespace nodes from planets.xml, I could use <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/> like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> ...
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