trim whitespace from left and right of html tags

[sspoke]

How am i to do this either a php builtin function i am unaware about or something simple with regular expressions replacing

 

I need a way to remove whitespace (tabs,spaces,newlines,etc) and anything else that seperates <> tags such as

 

<td class="subject solvedbg">
<div>
	<span id="msg_1">blah blah space   see
	<a href="blahblah>
</div>
</td>

 

to

 

<td class="subject solvedbg"><div><span id="msg_1">blah blah space   see<a href="blahblah></div></td>

 

Thank you.

 

[Rifts]

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/whitespace/

[AbraCadaver]

Several ways, here's one:

 

$new = preg_replace('/[\s]+(<)|(>)[\s]+/', '$2$1', $old);

[sspoke]

nice one abra and also thanks rifts good read