diff --git a/src/parse/index.ts b/src/parse/index.ts
index 21a503d22a..514e074fd4 100644
--- a/src/parse/index.ts
+++ b/src/parse/index.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import { whitespace } from '../utils/patterns';
 import { trimStart, trimEnd } from '../utils/trim';
 import getCodeFrame from '../utils/getCodeFrame';
 import hash from './utils/hash';
-import stripWhitespace from './utils/stripWhitespace';
 import { Node, Parsed } from '../interfaces';
 import CompileError from '../utils/CompileError';
 
diff --git a/src/parse/utils/stripWhitespace.ts b/src/parse/utils/stripWhitespace.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 3b1402ce60..0000000000
--- a/src/parse/utils/stripWhitespace.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-import { trimStart, trimEnd } from '../../utils/trim';
-import { Node } from '../../interfaces';
-
-export default function stripWhitespace(nodes: Node[]) {
-	while (nodes.length) {
-		const firstChild = nodes[0];
-
-		if (firstChild.type !== 'Text') break;
-
-		const length = firstChild.data.length;
-		firstChild.data = trimStart(firstChild.data);
-
-		if (firstChild.data === '') {
-			nodes.shift();
-		} else {
-			break;
-		}
-	}
-
-	while (nodes.length) {
-		const lastChild = nodes[nodes.length - 1];
-
-		if (lastChild.type !== 'Text') break;
-
-		const length = lastChild.data.length;
-		lastChild.data = trimEnd(lastChild.data);
-
-		if (lastChild.data === '') {
-			nodes.pop();
-		} else {
-			break;
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-
-// function stripWhitespace(element) {
-// 	if (element.children.length) {
-// 		const firstChild = element.children[0];
-// 		const lastChild = element.children[element.children.length - 1];
-
-// 		if (firstChild.type === 'Text') {
-// 			firstChild.data = trimStart(firstChild.data);
-// 			if (!firstChild.data) element.children.shift();
-// 		}
-
-// 		if (lastChild.type === 'Text') {
-// 			lastChild.data = trimEnd(lastChild.data);
-// 			if (!lastChild.data) element.children.pop();
-// 		}
-// 	}
-// }
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