XML Whitespace Normalization

For XML file types, you can choose whether the file filter software preserves whitespace or normalizes it. Preservation means that whitespace is not modified. Normalization means replacing whitespace with a single space. Normalization is done when the file is converted to sdlxliff. You can set the whitespace setting for a file type as a whole in the Whitespace page. You can also set the whitespace setting in a parser rule. Where a parser rule applies, it overrides the setting from the Whitespace page).

Normalization replaces the following whitespace with a space:

Whitespace within text
Whitespace between text and any tag
Whitespace between inline tags
Whitespace between an inline tag and a structure tag

Normalization does not change the whitespace between structure tags. (However, the user cannot not see this whitespace anyway.)