Let
X and
Y be metric spaces and
E,
F be Banach spaces. Suppose that both
X and
Y are realcompact, or both
E,
F are realcompact. The zero set of a vector-valued function
f is denoted by
z\left( f \right). A linear bijection
T between local or generalized Lipschitz vector-valued function spaces is said to preserve zero-set containments or nonvanishing functions if
z\left( f \right)\,\subseteq \,z\left( g \right)\,\,\,\,\Leftrightarrow \,\,\,\,z\left( Tf \right)\,\subseteq \,z\left( Tg \right),\,\,\,\,\,\text{or}\,\,\,\,z\left( f \right)\,=\,\varnothing \,\,\,\Leftrightarrow \,\,\,z\left( Tf \right)\,=\,\varnothing ,respectively. Every zero-set containment preserver, and every nonvanishing function preserver when
\dim\,E\,=\,\dim\,F\,<\,+\infty, is a weighted composition operator
\left( Tf \right)\left( y \right)\,=\,{{J}_{y}}\left( f\left( \tau \left( y \right) \right) \right). We show that the map
\tau \,:\,Y\,\to \,X is a locally (little) Lipschitz homeomorphism.