CLL template handling shall be extended with removal of whitespaces, except the ones within non-escaped double quotes, from the loaded templates. Function f_EPTF_LGenBase_loadExtTempl shall be extended with a new boolean input parameter pl_removeWhitespaces with default value false. After loading the template, if pl_removeWhitespaces is true, all whitespaces shall be removed from the contents of the template, which are not within non-escaped double quotes. In this case the LF to CR+LF conversion and the removal of the last newline can be skipped.