Fabrice already gave you the answer (thanks!). As this question has not been asked for the first time, I have updated our documentation [1]. Hope this helps, Christian [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Database_Module#db:create On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 9:14 AM, Etanchaud Fabrice <Fabrice.Etanchaud@horanet.com> wrote:

Hello Constantine,

IMHO parsing options only apply when there is actually a parsing phase.

I remember having the same problem with whitespace chopping.

Would you get expected result by serializing the xml before giving it to the db:create function ?

Best regards,

Fabrice

De : basex-talk-bounces@mailman.uni-konstanz.de [mailto:basex-talk-bounces@mailman.uni-konstanz.de] De la part de Hondros, Constantine (ELS-AMS) Envoyé : jeudi 26 novembre 2015 18:49 À : 'basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de' <basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de> Objet : [basex-talk] db:create, namespaces not stripped when input is variable?

Hello all,

Any particular reason behind this observed behaviour? (Basex 8.3).

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declare variable $test :=

<test xmlns:ce="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ani/common" xmlns="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ani/ani">

<ce:initials>M.S.</ce:initials>

</test>;

db:create('test', $test, 'blah', map {'stripns':true()})

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db:open('test')/*

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<test xmlns="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ani/ani" xmlns:ce="http://www.elsevier.com/xml/ani/common">

<ce:initials>M.S.</ce:initials>

</test>

I would have expected the namespaces to be shredded …

Cheers,

Constantine

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