---
title: skipWhitespace
framework: Core Foundation
role: symbol
role_heading: Type Property
path: corefoundation/cfxmlparseroptions/skipwhitespace
---

# skipWhitespace

## Declaration

```swift
static var skipWhitespace: CFXMLParserOptions { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion Skip over all whitespace that does not abut non-whitespace character data. In other words, given “<foo>  <bar> blah </bar></foo>,” the whitespace between foo’s open tag and bar’s open tag would be suppressed, but the whitespace around blah would be preserved.

## See Also

### Constants

- [validateDocument](corefoundation/cfxmlparseroptions/validatedocument.md)
- [skipMetaData](corefoundation/cfxmlparseroptions/skipmetadata.md)
- [replacePhysicalEntities](corefoundation/cfxmlparseroptions/replacephysicalentities.md)
- [resolveExternalEntities](corefoundation/cfxmlparseroptions/resolveexternalentities.md)
- [addImpliedAttributes](corefoundation/cfxmlparseroptions/addimpliedattributes.md)
- [allOptions](corefoundation/cfxmlparseroptions/alloptions.md)