Thanks, Andy, much appreciated. I’ve added a BaseX 10 Whitespaces reference to the STRIPWS paragraph [1].
[1] https://docs.basex.org/wiki/Options#STRIPWS On Wed, Jul 5, 2023 at 6:12 PM Andy Bunce <bunce.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 >>>
