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<xsl:strip-space> Element
Strips white-space-only text nodes that might appear in elements specified by the elements attributes.
<xsl:strip-space elements = tokens />
Attributes
- elements
- The value of this required attribute is a white-space-separated list of name tokens of the nodes whose white-space-only text nodes should be stripped.
Element Information
| Number of occurrences | Unlimited |
| Parent elements | xsl:stylesheet, xsl:transform |
| Child elements | (No child elements) |
Remarks
The <xsl:strip-space> element strips white-space-only text nodes in the specified elements.
By default, all white-space-only text nodes are preserved. If an element name matches a name test in an <xsl:strip-space> element, it is removed from the set of white-space-preserving element names. If an element name matches a name test in an <xsl:preserve-space> element, then it is added back to the set of white-space-preserving element names.
For more information, see "Whitespace Stripping", Section 3.4 of XSL Transformation (XSLT) Version 1.0, W3C Recommendation 16 November, 1999.
Example
See the example in <xsl:preserve-space> Element.
See Also
Controlling White Space with XSLT