diff --git a/source/appendixes/coretasks/AppendTask.xml b/source/appendixes/coretasks/AppendTask.xml
index 50c8fd4e..3e5b847f 100644
--- a/source/appendixes/coretasks/AppendTask.xml
+++ b/source/appendixes/coretasks/AppendTask.xml
@@ -12,6 +12,12 @@
${process.outputfile}. This is a real example from the build file used to generate this book!
+
+ By default, whitespace is stripped from text that is appended to a file (matching the way the Concat task works in Ant).
+ This is because adding a nested text element may introduce additional (ignorable) whitespace. If you want to override this behavior,
+ set the skipsanitize attribute to true.
+
+
Attributes
@@ -135,6 +141,19 @@
n/a
No
+
+
+ skipsanitize
+
+
+ Boolean
+
+
+ Specifies whether to skip sanitizing text (i.e., stripping spaces and newlines).
+
+ n/a
+ No
+
file