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title: <xsl:preserve-space>
slug: Web/XSLT/Element/preserve-space

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The <xsl:preserve-space> element defines the elements in the source document for which whitespace should be preserved. If there is more than one element, separate the names with a whitespace character. Preserving whitespace is the default setting, so this element only needs to be used to counteract an <xsl:strip-space> element.

Syntax

<xsl:preserve-space elements=LIST-OF-ELEMENT-NAMES />

Required Attributes

• elements

  • : Specifies the elements for which whitespace should be preserved.

Optional Attributes

None.

Type

Top-level, must be a child of <xsl:stylesheet> or <xsl:transform>.

Defined

XSLT, section 3.4

Gecko support

Supported.