Re: [basex-talk] xml element beginning and end space loss

1 Feb 2018

      Hi Stefania,

Sorry for the delay.

If I run you example, I **think** it behaves as intended, all <a/>-Elements but the one marked with xml:space are chopped.

This is what it looks like here:
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https://asciinema.org/a/4v1FtkeE1QsEByHe1S2BAZP9W
...
michael@mbp:~/tmp/ml|⇒ cat example.xq
db:create('test',
"<doc>
 <a> stefy </a>
 <a xml:space='preserve'> stefy </a>
 stefy 
</doc>",
"doc.xml"
)
michael@mbp:~/tmp/ml|⇒ basex example.xq
michael@mbp:~/tmp/ml|⇒ basex "db:open('test')"
<doc>
 <a>stefy</a>
 <a xml:space="preserve"> stefy </a>
 stefy
</doc>%
…if I add CHOP=false, the whitespace will be kept on all elements:
https://asciinema.org/a/IqUHE2hrhk0afjbPDi3jMgNVq <https://asciinema.org/a/IqUHE2hrhk0afjbPDi3jMgNVq>

I am sure we will eventually be able to solve this mystery :-)

Best
Michael
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Am 30.01.2018 um 23:36 schrieb Stefania Axo <stefy@us.ibm.com>:
thanks Michael
I run your suggestion and it seems to affect all the elements on my BaseX.
I also verified that the 'chop' property was still true after the execution of the xquery 
(> open test
Database 'test' was opened in 7.29 ms.
...
get chop
CHOP: true)
db:create('test',
"<doc>
 <a> stefy </a>
 <a xml:space='preserve'> stefy </a>
 stefy 
</doc>",
"doc.xml"
) 
========>>>>>
<doc> <a> stefy </a> <a xml:space="preserve"> stefy </a>
 stefy 
</doc>
db:replace("test", "doc1.xml",
"<doc>
 <a> stefy </a>
 stefy 
</doc>")
========>>>>>
<doc> <a> stefy </a>
 stefy 
</doc>
Am i missing something?
thanks
Stefania
From: Michael Seiferle <ms@basex.org>
To: Gerrit Imsieke <gerrit.imsieke@le-tex.de>, stefy@us.ibm.com
Cc: BaseX <basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de>
Date: 01/29/2018 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: [basex-talk] xml element beginning and end space loss
Hi & thanks Gerrit,
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 <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__docs.basex.org_wiki_Options-23CHOP&d=DwMFAg&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=oRDtJNjvHAlLIcU_p2eWUQ&m=AIHTeBAo5MBiXhmnxUdQi_GxNJ60DZKWMN9ThNZO0J4&s=LdABq3glFtOe8YafyHOrMcDLENoIHMUkyZuepDsyamQ&e=>
Best from Konstanz :-]
Michael
Am 27.01.2018 um 01:06 schrieb Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex <gerrit.imsieke@le-tex.de <mailto:gerrit.imsieke@le-tex.de>>:
Luckily you can switch it off.