From 19663e3b7378d22410dc3ea4b23ed3d6d1ec0480 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yoshua Wuyts <yoshuawuyts@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 17:15:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] strip empty text nodes

---
 index.js | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 09f2787..2c00571 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -131,11 +131,12 @@ function belCreateElement (tag, props, children) {
       }
 
       if (typeof node === 'string') {
+        if (/^[\S+\n\r\s]+$/.test(node)) continue
         if (el.lastChild && el.lastChild.nodeName === '#text') {
-          el.lastChild.nodeValue += node
+          el.lastChild.nodeValue += node.trim()
           continue
         }
-        node = document.createTextNode(node)
+        node = document.createTextNode(node.trim())
       }
 
       if (node && node.nodeType) {