Hi Stefania,

You may even decide to chop-or-not on a per-element basis:

db:create('test',

"<doc>

  <a>  stefy  </a>

  <a xml:space='preserve'>  stefy  </a>

</doc>",

"doc.xml"

)

Will preserve whitespace in the second <a />-Element while chopping in the first one.

=> http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Options#CHOP

Best from Konstanz :-]

Michael