xml element beginning and end space loss
Hi all! is there a way to preserve the beginning and ending spaces in the Database xml elements? In other words If I execute this xQuery db:replace("MyDB", "doc.xml", "<a> stefy </a>") the resulted document will be <a>stefy</a> As you can see I lost my beginner and ending spaces. thanks Stefania
Hi Stefania, You can avoid it if you create the DB with chopping switched off in the first place. Or you can supply the chopping option as you go: db:replace('MyDB', 'doc.xml', '<a> stefy </a>', map {'chop':false()}) Whitespace chooping by default is maybe the most-detested design decision in BaseX, at least among users of mixed content. Luckily you can switch it off. Gerrit On 27/01/2018 00:53, Stefania Axo wrote:
Hi all!
is there a way to preserve the beginning and ending spaces in the Database xml elements?
In other words If I execute this xQuery
db:replace("MyDB", "doc.xml", "<a> stefy </a>")
the resulted document will be
<a>stefy</a>
As you can see I lost my beginner and ending spaces.
thanks Stefania
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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 <http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Options#CHOP> Best from Konstanz :-] Michael
Am 27.01.2018 um 01:06 schrieb Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex <gerrit.imsieke@le-tex.de>:
Luckily you can switch it off.
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> <b> stefy </b> </doc>", "doc.xml" ) ========>>>>> <doc> <a> stefy </a> <a xml:space="preserve"> stefy </a> <b> stefy </b> </doc> db:replace("test", "doc1.xml", "<doc> <a> stefy </a> <b> stefy </b> </doc>") ========>>>>> <doc> <a> stefy </a> <b> stefy </b> </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 Best from Konstanz :-] Michael Am 27.01.2018 um 01:06 schrieb Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex < gerrit.imsieke@le-tex.de>: Luckily you can switch it off.
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:
michael@mbp:~/tmp/ml|⇒ cat example.xq db:create('test', "<doc> <a> stefy </a> <a xml:space='preserve'> stefy </a> <b> stefy </b> </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> <b>stefy</b> </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
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> <b> stefy </b> </doc>", "doc.xml" ) ========>>>>> <doc> <a> stefy </a> <a xml:space="preserve"> stefy </a> <b> stefy </b> </doc>
db:replace("test", "doc1.xml", "<doc> <a> stefy </a> <b> stefy </b> </doc>") ========>>>>> <doc> <a> stefy </a> <b> stefy </b> </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.
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