diff --git a/services/treebase-search.xsl b/services/treebase-search.xsl
index 8079b69..a6c16a5 100644
--- a/services/treebase-search.xsl
+++ b/services/treebase-search.xsl
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
-<xsl:stylesheet version='1.0' xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'  xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rss="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" xmlns:tb="http://treebase.org/terms#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
+<xsl:stylesheet version='1.0' xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'  xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rss="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" xmlns:tb="http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/2.0/terms#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
 >
 
+<!-- 
+  Note use of normalize-space() to strip white space from XML
+  see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1468984/xslt-remove-whitespace-from-template
+-->
+
 <xsl:output method='text' version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' indent='no'/>
 
 <xsl:template match="/">
@@ -17,10 +22,10 @@
 	<xsl:text>{&#x0D;</xsl:text>
 	<xsl:text>&#x09;"link":"</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="rss:link"/><xsl:text>",&#x0D;</xsl:text>
 	<xsl:text>&#x09;"identifier":"</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="substring-after(rss:link,'http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/phylows/tree/')"/><xsl:text>",&#x0D;</xsl:text>
-	<xsl:text>&#x09;"kind":"</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="tb:kind.tree"/><xsl:text>",&#x0D;</xsl:text>
-	<xsl:text>&#x09;"type":"</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="tb:type.tree"/><xsl:text>",&#x0D;</xsl:text>
-	<xsl:text>&#x09;"type":"</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="tb:quality.tree"/><xsl:text>",&#x0D;</xsl:text>
-	<xsl:text>&#x09;"ntax":</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="tb:ntax.tree"/><xsl:text>,&#x0D;</xsl:text>
+	<xsl:text>&#x09;"kind":"</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(tb:kind.tree)"/><xsl:text>",&#x0D;</xsl:text>
+	<xsl:text>&#x09;"type":"</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(tb:type.tree)"/><xsl:text>",&#x0D;</xsl:text>
+	<xsl:text>&#x09;"quality":"</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(tb:quality.tree)"/><xsl:text>",&#x0D;</xsl:text>
+	<xsl:text>&#x09;"ntax":</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(tb:ntax.tree)"/><xsl:text>&#x0D;</xsl:text>
 	<xsl:text>}</xsl:text>
 </xsl:template>
 </xsl:stylesheet>
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