diff --git a/src/main/java/com/xmlcalabash/core/XProcConfiguration.java b/src/main/java/com/xmlcalabash/core/XProcConfiguration.java
index 6b33e38b..34beb59a 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/xmlcalabash/core/XProcConfiguration.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/xmlcalabash/core/XProcConfiguration.java
@@ -1,9 +1,20 @@
 package com.xmlcalabash.core;
 
 import com.nwalsh.annotations.SaxonExtensionFunction;
+import com.xmlcalabash.io.DocumentSequence;
+import com.xmlcalabash.io.ReadablePipe;
+import com.xmlcalabash.model.Step;
 import com.xmlcalabash.piperack.PipelineSource;
-import com.xmlcalabash.util.*;
-import net.sf.saxon.Configuration;
+import com.xmlcalabash.runtime.XAtomicStep;
+import com.xmlcalabash.util.AxisNodes;
+import com.xmlcalabash.util.Input;
+import com.xmlcalabash.util.JSONtoXML;
+import com.xmlcalabash.util.LogOptions;
+import com.xmlcalabash.util.Output;
+import com.xmlcalabash.util.S9apiUtils;
+import com.xmlcalabash.util.URIUtils;
+import net.sf.saxon.Version;
+import net.sf.saxon.om.NoElementsSpaceStrippingRule;
 import net.sf.saxon.s9api.Axis;
 import net.sf.saxon.s9api.DocumentBuilder;
 import net.sf.saxon.s9api.Processor;
@@ -13,45 +24,34 @@
 import net.sf.saxon.s9api.XdmNode;
 import net.sf.saxon.s9api.XdmNodeKind;
 import net.sf.saxon.s9api.XdmValue;
-import net.sf.saxon.value.Whitespace;
+import org.atteo.classindex.ClassFilter;
+import org.atteo.classindex.ClassIndex;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
 
+import javax.xml.transform.Source;
+import javax.xml.transform.sax.SAXSource;
+import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.lang.reflect.Method;
-import java.net.URL;
-import java.util.Collections;
-import java.util.HashMap;
-import java.util.Hashtable;
-import java.util.Vector;
-import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
 import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.io.File;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.util.Hashtable;
+import java.util.Vector;
 import java.util.jar.JarFile;
 import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
 
-import com.xmlcalabash.io.ReadablePipe;
-import com.xmlcalabash.io.DocumentSequence;
-import com.xmlcalabash.runtime.XAtomicStep;
-import com.xmlcalabash.model.Step;
-
-import javax.xml.transform.sax.SAXSource;
-import javax.xml.transform.Source;
-
-import org.atteo.classindex.ClassFilter;
-import org.atteo.classindex.ClassIndex;
-import org.slf4j.Logger;
-import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
-import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
-
 import static com.xmlcalabash.util.URIUtils.encode;
 import static java.lang.String.format;
 import static java.lang.System.getProperty;
-import net.sf.saxon.Version;
 
 /**
  * Created by IntelliJ IDEA.
@@ -262,8 +262,7 @@ private void createSaxonProcessor(String proctype, boolean schemaAware, Input sa
             cfgProcessor = new Processor(licensed);
         }
 
-        cfgProcessor.getUnderlyingConfiguration().setStripsAllWhiteSpace(false);
-        cfgProcessor.getUnderlyingConfiguration().setStripsWhiteSpace(Whitespace.NONE);
+        cfgProcessor.getUnderlyingConfiguration().getParseOptions().setSpaceStrippingRule(NoElementsSpaceStrippingRule.getInstance());
 
         String actualtype = Version.softwareEdition;
         if ((proctype != null) && !"he".equals(proctype) && (!actualtype.toLowerCase().equals(proctype))) {