diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 90496f7b6..d6baa00b2 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -18,6 +18,13 @@
     <move todir="${editions}">
         <fileset dir="${tmpDir}"/>
     </move>
+    <xslt style="./import-xslts/remove-whitespace.xsl"  basedir="./data/editions" destdir="${tmpDir}" includes="*.xml" extension=".xml">
+        <factory name="net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl"/>
+        <classpath location="${basedir}/saxon/saxon9he.jar"/>
+    </xslt>
+    <move todir="${editions}">
+        <fileset dir="${tmpDir}"/>
+    </move>
     <delete dir="${tmpDir}"/>
 
 </project>
diff --git a/import-xslts/langesS-1.xsl b/import-xslts/langesS-1.xsl
deleted file mode 100644
index 720cee926..000000000
--- a/import-xslts/langesS-1.xsl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" version="3.0">
-    <xsl:mode on-no-match="shallow-copy"/>
-    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
-    
-    <xsl:template match="text()" name="repNL">
-        <xsl:param name="pText" select="."/>
-        <!-- Sonderfall, langes s am Wortanfang! -->
-        <xsl:copy-of select="substring-before(concat($pText,' ſ'),' ſ')"/>
-        <xsl:if test="contains($pText, ' ſ')">
-            <xsl:element name="tei:space">
-                <xsl:attribute name="unit">
-                    <xsl:text>chars</xsl:text>
-                </xsl:attribute>
-                <xsl:attribute name="quantity">
-                    <xsl:text>1</xsl:text>
-                </xsl:attribute>
-                <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
-            </xsl:element>
-            <xsl:element name="c">
-                <xsl:attribute name="rendition">
-                    <xsl:text>#langesS</xsl:text>
-                </xsl:attribute>
-                <xsl:text>s</xsl:text>
-            </xsl:element>
-            <xsl:call-template name="repNL">
-                <xsl:with-param name="pText" select="substring-after($pText, ' ſ')"/>
-            </xsl:call-template>
-        </xsl:if>
-    </xsl:template>
-    
-</xsl:stylesheet>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/import-xslts/langesS-2.xsl b/import-xslts/langesS-2.xsl
deleted file mode 100644
index 5fbf24a04..000000000
--- a/import-xslts/langesS-2.xsl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"
-    xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
-    version="3.0">
-    <xsl:mode on-no-match="shallow-copy"/>
-    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
-    <xsl:template match="text()" name="repNL">
-        <xsl:param name="pText" select="."/>
-        <xsl:copy-of select="substring-before(concat($pText, 'ſſ'), 'ſſ')"/>
-        <xsl:choose>
-            <xsl:when test="contains($pText, 'ſſ')">
-                <xsl:element name="c">
-                    <xsl:attribute name="rendition">
-                        <xsl:text>#langesS</xsl:text>
-                    </xsl:attribute>
-                    <xsl:text>s</xsl:text>
-                </xsl:element>
-                <xsl:element name="c">
-                    <xsl:attribute name="rendition">
-                        <xsl:text>#langesS</xsl:text>
-                    </xsl:attribute>
-                    <xsl:text>s</xsl:text>
-                </xsl:element>
-                <xsl:call-template name="repNL">
-                    <xsl:with-param name="pText" select="substring-after($pText, 'ſſ')"/>
-                </xsl:call-template>
-            </xsl:when>
-        </xsl:choose>
-    </xsl:template>
-</xsl:stylesheet>
diff --git a/import-xslts/langesS-3.xsl b/import-xslts/langesS-3.xsl
deleted file mode 100644
index b03bf74b6..000000000
--- a/import-xslts/langesS-3.xsl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" version="3.0">
-    <xsl:mode on-no-match="shallow-copy"/>
-    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
-    <xsl:template match="text()" name="repNL">
-        <xsl:param name="pText" select="."/>
-        <xsl:copy-of select="substring-before(concat($pText,'ſ'),'ſ')"/>
-        <xsl:choose>
-            <xsl:when test="contains($pText, 'ſ')">
-                <xsl:element name="c">
-                    <xsl:attribute name="rendition">
-                        <xsl:text>#langesS</xsl:text>
-                    </xsl:attribute>
-                    <xsl:text>s</xsl:text>
-                </xsl:element>
-                <xsl:call-template name="repNL">
-                    <xsl:with-param name="pText" select="substring-after($pText, 'ſ')"/>
-                </xsl:call-template>
-            </xsl:when>
-        </xsl:choose>
-    </xsl:template>
-</xsl:stylesheet>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/import-xslts/remove-whitespace-1.xsl b/import-xslts/remove-whitespace-1.xsl
deleted file mode 100644
index 70a4fd3cc..000000000
--- a/import-xslts/remove-whitespace-1.xsl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<xsl:stylesheet xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"
-    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="3.0">
-    <xsl:mode on-no-match="shallow-copy"/>
-    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="no"/>
-    <!--<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>-->
-    <!-- Dieses Template löscht allen whitespace aus physDesc und body. 
-        Achtung, relevant ist auch strip-space! 
-    aus mir nicht ganz ersichtlichem Grund muss es mehrmals laufen
-    -->
-    <xsl:template
-        match="text()[ancestor::tei:div[parent::tei:body] or ancestor::tei:p[parent::tei:physDesc]]">
-        <xsl:choose>
-            <xsl:when test="starts-with(., ' ') and ends-with(., ' ')">
-                <xsl:text/>
-                <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
-                <xsl:text/>
-            </xsl:when>
-            <xsl:when test="starts-with(., ' ')">
-                <xsl:text/>
-                <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
-            </xsl:when>
-            <xsl:when test="ends-with(., ' ')">
-                <xsl:text/>
-                <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
-            </xsl:when>
-            <xsl:otherwise>
-                <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
-            </xsl:otherwise>
-        </xsl:choose>
-    </xsl:template>
-</xsl:stylesheet>
diff --git a/import-xslts/remove-whitespace-2.xsl b/import-xslts/remove-whitespace-2.xsl
deleted file mode 100644
index 505875f4b..000000000
--- a/import-xslts/remove-whitespace-2.xsl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" version="3.0">
-    <xsl:mode on-no-match="shallow-copy"/>
-    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="false"/>
-    <!--<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>-->
-    
-    <!-- Dieses Template löscht allen whitespace aus physDesc und body. 
-        Achtung, relevant ist auch strip-space! -->
-    
-    <xsl:template match="text()[ancestor::tei:div[parent::tei:body] or ancestor::tei:p[parent::tei:physDesc]]">
-        <xsl:choose>
-            <xsl:when test="normalize-space(.)=''"/>
-            <xsl:when test="(starts-with(.,'&#xA;') or starts-with(.,' ')) and (ends-with(., '&#xA;') or ends-with(., ' '))">
-                <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
-                <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
-                <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
-            </xsl:when>
-            <xsl:when test="(starts-with(.,'&#xA;') or starts-with(.,' '))">
-                <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
-                <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
-            </xsl:when>
-            <xsl:when test="(ends-with(., '&#xA;') or ends-with(., ' '))">
-                <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
-                <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
-            </xsl:when>
-            <xsl:otherwise>
-                <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
-            </xsl:otherwise>
-        </xsl:choose>
-        
-    </xsl:template>
-    
-   
-</xsl:stylesheet>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/import-xslts/remove-whitespace.xsl b/import-xslts/remove-whitespace.xsl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f4d7c9c17
--- /dev/null
+++ b/import-xslts/remove-whitespace.xsl
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<xsl:stylesheet xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"
+    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="3.0">
+    <xsl:mode on-no-match="shallow-copy"/>
+    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="no"/>
+    
+    <xsl:template match="text()[normalize-space(.)='' and ancestor::tei:div[parent::tei:body] or ancestor::tei:p[parent::tei:physDesc]]"/>
+    
+    
+</xsl:stylesheet>