Congrats on the latest version! Looking forward as usual to exploring the new features.
However, I'm perplexed by the decision to remove the text parser from the codebase. I understand the desire to streamline and remove dependencies related to lower-value features, but I've always found the text parser to be super useful. After installing Basex 10.8 beta today, I had to refactor a process (parsing a set of interview transcripts generated by Zoom) that involved creating a DB from a directory of text files. In addition, I noticed some unexpected results in how the text was parsed using standard methods. In BaseX 10.6, using the text parser in the GUI, the output looks like this: <text>WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.910 --> 00:00:27.240 ... </text> Here, each line end is just a newline character (\n). Using file:read-text or fn:unparsed-text (in 10.6 and 10.8 beta), the output looks like this: <text>WEBVTT
 
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 ... </text> Here, each line end also has a carriage return (\r). And if instead, I store it as an XQuery value, I see the newline characters that aren't otherwise displayed in the GUI: "WEBVTT

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..." So, the text parser seems to have done some normalization, which was also helpful. Any chance that it could be restored (by popular demand) in version 11? :) Best regards, Tim -- Tim A. Thompson (he, him) Librarian for Applied Metadata Research Yale University Library El vie, 4 ago 2023 a la(s) 06:55, Christian Grün ([email protected]) escribió: > Dear all, > > We’re pleased to announce version 10.7 of BaseX, of our XML framework: > https://basex.org. > > The new release is a big step forward towards BaseX 11: > > • We have added numerous new operators, functions and features of XQuery > 4. > • The GUI editor and result view now provide full support for Unicode > characters. > • Font rendering has been improved (you can tweak it in the Font Dialog) > • More BaseX 11 preview features available (see docs.basex.org) > • Various bug fixes (web:forward, job:eval, main-memory documents) > > Have fun, > Your BaseX Team >
