XML in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Name

xsl:strip-space

Synopsis

<xsl:strip-space
   elements="QualifiedName_1 QualifiedName_2..." />

The top-level xsl:strip-space element specifies which elements in the source document have whitespace stripped from them before they are transformed. Whitespace stripping removes all text nodes that contain only whitespace (the space character, the tab character, the carriage return, and the line feed). By default, whitespace is not stripped from an element unless its name is listed in the elements attribute of an xsl:strip-space element.

This element does not trim leading or trailing whitespace, or otherwise normalize whitespace in elements that contain even a single nonwhitespace character.

Attribute

elements, required

A whitespace-separated list of elements in which space should be stripped. Besides element names, the elements attribute can contain an asterisk to indicate that whitespace should be stripped in all elements or contain a namespace prefix followed by a colon and asterisk to indicate that whitespace should be stripped in all elements in the given namespace.