Index: tika-core/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/sax/LinkContentHandler.java
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--- tika-core/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/sax/LinkContentHandler.java	(revision 1371648)
+++ tika-core/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/sax/LinkContentHandler.java	(working copy)
@@ -42,6 +42,25 @@
 
     /** Collected links */
     private final List<Link> links = new ArrayList<Link>();
+    
+    /** Whether to collapse whitespace in anchor text */
+    private boolean collapseWhitespaceInAnchor = false;
+    
+    /**
+     * Default constructor
+     */
+    public LinkContentHandler() { super(); }
+    
+    /**
+     * Default constructor
+     *
+     * @boolean collapseWhitespaceInAnchor
+     */
+    public LinkContentHandler(boolean collapseWhitespaceInAnchor) {
+      super();
+      
+      this.collapseWhitespaceInAnchor = collapseWhitespaceInAnchor;
+    }
 
     /**
      * Returns the list of collected links.
@@ -96,7 +115,7 @@
     public void endElement(String uri, String local, String name) {
         if (XHTML.equals(uri)) {
             if ("a".equals(local) || "img".equals(local)) {
-                links.add(builderStack.removeFirst().getLink());
+                links.add(builderStack.removeFirst().getLink(collapseWhitespaceInAnchor));
             }
         }
     }
Index: tika-core/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/sax/LinkBuilder.java
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--- tika-core/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/sax/LinkBuilder.java	(revision 1371648)
+++ tika-core/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/sax/LinkBuilder.java	(working copy)
@@ -61,7 +61,16 @@
     }
 
     public Link getLink() {
-        return new Link(type, uri, title, text.toString(), rel);
+        return getLink(false);
     }
+    
+    public Link getLink(boolean collapseWhitespace) {
+        String anchor = text.toString();
+        
+        if (collapseWhitespace)
+          anchor = anchor.replaceAll("\\s+", " ").trim();
+        
+        return new Link(type, uri, title, anchor, rel);
+    }
 
 }