Perhaps this addition would be more findable if moved to the STRIPWS description?
/Andy On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 at 16:54, Andy Bunce <bunce.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Christian, > > You are right about Saxon. The documentation appeared, to me, to suggest > the default was preserve, and I didn't check! > The documentation is now very clear[1]. > > "The default is strip, in accordance with Appendix C.1 of the XQuery > specification." > > I have added a few words to the Wiki [2] > > Thanks > > /Andy > [1] > https://www.saxonica.com/documentation12/index.html#!conformance/xquery31 > [2] https://docs.basex.org/wiki/BaseX_10#Whitespaces > > On Sat, 1 Jul 2023 at 07:41, Christian Grün <christian.gr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Thanks for the suggestions. I agree that XML whitespace handling will >> always be a challenge and challenging to grasp… No matter what defaults are >> used in an implementation. It’s true, our documentation could provide more >> detail about this; maybe we can spend more time on that in the future. All >> edits are welcome ;) >> >> I had a look at what Saxon does [2] (item 32). It looks like the Saxon >>> boundary-space default is preserve. >>> >> >> I believe that Saxon strips boundary space by default as well. At least >> that’s my command-line experience (I didn’t check how that correlates to >> the information given in their documentation): >> >> (: query.xq :) >> <x> </x> >> >> (: call :) >> java -cp "saxon-he-12.2.jar;xmlresolver-5.1.1.jar" net.sf.saxon.Query >> query.xq >> >> (: result :) >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><x/> >> >> Best, >> Christian >> >>
