diff --git a/lib/rexml/formatters/transitive.rb b/lib/rexml/formatters/transitive.rb
index 5ff51e10..d4643dee 100644
--- a/lib/rexml/formatters/transitive.rb
+++ b/lib/rexml/formatters/transitive.rb
@@ -12,46 +12,9 @@ module Formatters
     # Note that this is only useful if the original XML is not already
     # formatted.  Since this formatter does not alter whitespace nodes, the
     # results of formatting already formatted XML will be odd.
-    class Transitive < Default
-      def initialize( indentation=2, ie_hack=false )
-        @indentation = indentation
-        @level = 0
-        @ie_hack = ie_hack
-      end
-
-      protected
-      def write_element( node, output )
-        output << "<#{node.expanded_name}"
-
-        node.attributes.each_attribute do |attr|
-          output << " "
-          attr.write( output )
-        end unless node.attributes.empty?
-
-        output << "\n"
-        output << ' '*@level
-        if node.children.empty?
-          output << " " if @ie_hack
-          output << "/"
-        else
-          output << ">"
-          # If compact and all children are text, and if the formatted output
-          # is less than the specified width, then try to print everything on
-          # one line
-          @level += @indentation
-          node.children.each { |child|
-            write( child, output )
-          }
-          @level -= @indentation
-          output << "</#{node.expanded_name}"
-          output << "\n"
-          output << ' '*@level
-        end
-        output << ">"
-      end
-
+    class Transitive < Pretty
       def write_text( node, output )
-        output << node.to_s()
+        output << node.to_s().strip
       end
     end
   end