diff --git a/forms/source/xforms/convert.cxx b/forms/source/xforms/convert.cxx
index 285b3a7d1f88..b1bda6ead3e1 100644
--- a/forms/source/xforms/convert.cxx
+++ b/forms/source/xforms/convert.cxx
@@ -469,28 +469,6 @@ Convert::Any_t Convert::toAny( const OUString& rValue,
return aIter != maMap.end() ? aIter->second.second( rValue ) : Any_t();
}
-//------------------------------------------------------------------------
-OUString Convert::convertWhitespace( const OUString& _rString, sal_Int16 _nWhitespaceTreatment )
-{
- OUString sConverted;
- switch( _nWhitespaceTreatment )
- {
- default:
- OSL_FAIL( "Convert::convertWhitespace: invalid whitespace treatment constant!" );
- // NO break
- case com::sun::star::xsd::WhiteSpaceTreatment::Preserve:
- sConverted = _rString;
- break;
- case com::sun::star::xsd::WhiteSpaceTreatment::Replace:
- sConverted = replaceWhitespace( _rString );
- break;
- case com::sun::star::xsd::WhiteSpaceTreatment::Collapse:
- sConverted = collapseWhitespace( _rString );
- break;
- }
- return sConverted;
-}
-
//------------------------------------------------------------------------
OUString Convert::replaceWhitespace( const OUString& _rString )
{
diff --git a/forms/source/xforms/convert.hxx b/forms/source/xforms/convert.hxx
index 8da1090d1bf4..f3fa5243c9d5 100644
--- a/forms/source/xforms/convert.hxx
+++ b/forms/source/xforms/convert.hxx
@@ -72,22 +72,6 @@ public:
/// convert XML representation to Any of given type
Any_t toAny( const OUString&, const Type_t& );
- /** translates the whitespaces in a given string, according
- to a given WhiteSpaceTreatment.
-
- @param _rString
- the string to convert
- @param _nWhitespaceTreatment
- a constant from the WhiteSpaceTreatment group, specifying
- how to handle whitespaces
- @return
- the converted string
- */
- static OUString convertWhitespace(
- const OUString& _rString,
- sal_Int16 _nWhitespaceTreatment
- );
-
/** replace all occurrences 0x08, 0x0A, 0x0D with 0x20
*/
static OUString replaceWhitespace( const OUString& _rString );