... some subtags and content and whatnot ... ... some subtags and content and whatnot ... ... some subtags and content and whatnot ... ... #### =head2 Whitespace handling stripspaces => 0 (default) All whitespace should be preserved. stripspaces => 1 remove the whitespace-only content preceeding a tag whose rule did not return anything in a way that would cause it to be added to parent's _content and whitespace between such a tag and the closing parent tag. This means that no whitespace will be removed before in "blah " but (if the rule for returns nothing or an even-numbered list of things to be added to the parent's %$attr) both whitespaces will be removed in " ". stripspaces => 2 remove all whitespace before tags that do not add anything into parent's _content and before the closing tag. stripspaces => 3 as => 2, plus trims the _content of tags and doesn't include the _content for tags like "" and " ". normalisespaces => 0 do not do anything with multiple spaces in a row normalisespaces => 1 collapse multiple spaces in a row to a single one