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      <h1>xsl:preserve-space</h1>
      <p>The <code>xsl:preserve-space</code> element is used at the top level of the stylesheet to define elements in the source
document for which white-space nodes are significant and should be retained.</p>
      <p>The <code>elements</code> attribute is mandatory, and defines a space-separated list of element names.
The value "*" may be used to mean "all elements"; in this case any elements where whitespace is not
to be preserved may be indicated by an <a class="bodylink" href="../xsl-elements/strip-space.xml">xsl:strip-space</a> element.</p>
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