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

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The <xsl:strip-space> element defines the elements in the source document for which whitespace should be removed.

Syntax

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

Required Attributes

• elements

  • : Specifies a space-separated list of elements in the source whose whitespace-only text nodes should be removed.

Optional Attributes

None.

Type

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

Defined

XSLT, section 3.4

Gecko support

Supported.