I think Goetz meant white space stripping (not wide space stripping) as in
xsl:strip-space (see http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#strip). -Mike

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> > The XML-processor (used by your XSL-T) processor is allowed to do wide
> > space stripping.
>
> I'm interested,  if there is any mention about this permission in
> specs ? XML 1.0 spec says something opposite:
> "An XML processor must always pass all characters in a document
> that are not markup through to the application. "
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