Re: [basex-talk] following-sibling axis

Am 26.02.2019 um 07:54 schrieb Mark Bordelon:

But I have a question about some behavior I am seeing in the *following-sibling* axis that does not seem logical to me.

Here is the data stored in basex:

...

xquery /text[@id='test']

<text id="test">   <clause> <word>A</word>a <word>B</word> <word>C</word>c   </clause> </text>

Here is the query on that data:

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*xquery /text[@id='test']//word/concat(text(), ' ',

normalize-space(./following-sibling::text()[1]))* A a B *c* C c

I think the result you get is caused by whitespace chopping during XML parsing, seems to be the default, see http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Command-Line_Options

|-w| Toggles whitespace chopping of XML text nodes. By default, whitespaces will be chopped.