whitespace nodes

[jos3000]

The latest version is removing all my nodes only containing whitespace. It's introducing subtle rendering bugs where spaces are missing e.g.

<div><span class="firstname">Jos</span> <span class="lastname">Shepherd</span></div>

is getting output as:

<div><span class="firstname">Jos</span><span class="lastname">Shepherd</span></div>

Is the whitespace stripping by design or is it a bug?

[siddMahen]

The whitespace stripping is by design. A non stripped parsing option is in the works.

[jos3000]

cool beans. I've found the setting and I'm patching it manually until it becomes an option

[siddMahen]

Now you can do:

var $ = cheerio.load(html, { ignoreWhitespace: false });

to disable whitespace stripping. You can also enter any other options that node-htmlparser2 accepts.

[SlavaB]

{ ignoreWhitespace: false } doesn't work again?
I've now downloaded current version of Cheerio and see the option doesn't work again. Whitespaces are ignored always.