diff --git a/jquery.parsley.js b/jquery.parsley.js
index d21b5f9..bd9ffad 100644
--- a/jquery.parsley.js
+++ b/jquery.parsley.js
@@ -44,16 +44,6 @@ StringNodeList.prototype.toString = function() {
   return buffer + "]>";
 }
 
-/**
- * Trims and replaces arbitrary whitespace with single spaces.
- */
-StringNodeList.prototype.normalizeSpace = function() {
-  jQuery.each(this, function() {
-    this.string = pQuery.normalizeSpace(this.string);
-  });  
-  return this;
-}
-
 /**
  * Creates an array of strings that mirrors this StringNodeList.
  */
@@ -77,7 +67,7 @@ StringNodeList.prototype.simple = function() {
  * 
  * The following shortcut arguments are also available:
  * - extract() 
- *   => function(node) { return pQuery.normalizeSpace(jQuery(node).text()); }
+ *   => function(node) { return jQuery(node).text(); }
  * - extract("@foo") 
  *   => function(node) { return jQuery(node).attr("foo"); }
  * - extract(/regex/) 
@@ -86,7 +76,7 @@ StringNodeList.prototype.simple = function() {
 jQuery.fn.extract = function(func) {
   if(!func){
     func = function(node) {
-      return pQuery.normalizeSpace(jQuery(node).text());
+      return jQuery(node).text();
     };
   }
 
@@ -180,10 +170,6 @@ pQuery.group = function(parselet) {
   });  
 }
 
-pQuery.normalizeSpace = function(string) {
-  return string.replace(/\s+/g, ' ').replace(/^\s+/m, '').replace(/\s+$/m, '');
-}
-
 pQuery.extract = function(parselet) {
   jQuery.each(parselet, function(key, value) {
     if(typeof(value) == "array") { 
diff --git a/tests.html b/tests.html
index 3bb307e..f7bc771 100644
--- a/tests.html
+++ b/tests.html
@@ -30,11 +30,7 @@
         return max;
       }).simple(), [25, 10]);
     });
-    
-    test("trailing space normalization", function() {
-      same($(".message").extract().normalizeSpace().simple(), ["Merry christmas!", "Happy new year!"]);
-    });
-    
+        
     test("extract", function(){
       var parselet = {
         page: location.href.split("/").pop,
@@ -88,7 +84,7 @@ <h1>Test dom</h1>
     <ul>
       <li>
         <span class="date">12/25/09</span>
-        <span class="message" id="b">Merry christmas! </span>
+        <span class="message" id="b">Merry christmas!</span>
       </li>
       <li>
         <span class="date">01/01/10</span>