Re: Functional Equivalent of strip-space on Collection

Answers to my question might go several rather different directions so
I'll try and specify general scenarios vs. the specific scenario I'm
most interested in.

Using: XSLT 2.0.

Goal: Use functional equivalent of strip-space on collection documents.

Perhaps I'm mistaken but using XSLT 2.0 I don't think there is a way to
use <xsl:strip-space> on documents that are being processed in a
collection. That's because strip-space applies only to the input
document

https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#strip explains: "For the purposes of this
section, the term source tree means the document containing the initial
context node, and any document returned by the functions document,
docFO, or collectionFO."

So I am not sure where you got the idea that "the input document" is the
document xsl:strip-space is declared for. It includes secondary input
documents as well.