Feature request: remove whitespace

[grokky1]

It is desirable for emails to be as small as possible. However the templates we use to create them have lots of whitespace - obviously because of residue of server-side markup and comments, and whitespace to make it easier to read the template, etc.

Would be useful to have a new argument bool removeWhitespace = false which would strip all whitespace. So the output would be one long line of text.

Would not be a breaking change.

[alekdavis]

Do you mean removing line breaks? Generally, whitespace includes space characters, tabs, new lines, etc. You definitely do not want to remove all white space characters, right?

[grokky1]

Whitespace between tags is useless and should be removed. Whitespace within tags should not be removed.

[alekdavis]

Not necessarily, e.g. hello world is not the same as helloworld.

[grokky1]

Your example is presumably within a tag? If so then it should not be minified.

Here's an example:

Should not be minified:

<span>Hello  

      world</span>

Should be minified:

<span>Hello world</span>         <b>!</b>

[alekdavis]

<b>Hello</b> <i>world</i> (with a space character between </b> and <i>) is not the same as <b>Hello</b><i>world</i> (without the space character).

[grokky1]

I don't think I understand your example? And the tags are not well-formed.

Whitespace between tags is useless and should be removed. Are you saying there are cases where this is not true? I suppose for verbatim text that is the case, but who writes markup like that?

Besides this would be a configurable option.