I really need to remove the leading and trailing whitespace from nodes. Tried in vain to get \xmlstrip (and friends like \xmlstripnolines) working. Just doing \xmlstripped{node}{lpath} is not adequate, because I want to order the output when a node contains several subnodes (using \xmlfilter for this). Below a minimal example. Tweaking the \xmlstrip in all sorts of way did not help. Hans van der Meer \startxmlsetups xml:testsetups \xmlsetsetup{test}{test|a|b|c}{xml:*} \stopxmlsetups \xmlregistersetup{xml:testsetups} \startxmlsetups xml:test \xmlstrip{#1}{} \xmltext{#1}{} No spaces should showup between nodes! \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:a \xmlflush{#1} \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:b \xmltext{#1}{} \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:c \xmlflush{#1} \stopxmlsetups \starttext \xmlprocessfile{test}{test.xml}{} \stoptext Input xml-file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <test> <a> This is node a: <b> :Node b: </b> <c> :Node c: </c> </a> </test> The result: