Thanks! That works! I have a separate question on formatting attributes but will post that separately. Hope you are having a great week! Patrick On 2/13/23 14:39, Martin Honnen wrote:

On 2/13/2023 8:28 PM, Patrick Durusau wrote:

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Greetings!

I have the following in the prolog of an XQuery:

declare namespace output = 'http://www.w3.org/2010/xslt-xquery-serialization'; declare option output:method 'basex'; declare option output:basex 'indent=yes, newline=\n';

I'm following the example at: https://docs.basex.org/wiki/Serialization for CSV, reasoning the same form should work for basex.

Sadly, BaseX 10.4 on Debian reports:

[XQST0109] Unknown option 'basex

Is it because basex isn't in the namespace of 'http://www.w3.org/2010/xslt-xquery-serialization'; ?

OK so I change the namespace to http://tm.durusau.net and it runs!

Sadly not applying the requested formatting.

Some guidance on serialization please?

I think the right syntax is

declare namespace output = 'http://www.w3.org/2010/xslt-xquery-serialization'; declare option output:method 'basex'; declare option output:indent 'yes'; declare option output:newline '\n';

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