Re: [basex-talk] xml element beginning and end space loss

Hi Stefania, You can avoid it if you create the DB with chopping switched off in the first place. Or you can supply the chopping option as you go: db:replace('MyDB', 'doc.xml', ' stefy ', map {'chop':false()}) Whitespace chooping by default is maybe the most-detested design decision in

[basex-talk] xml element beginning and end space loss

Hi all! is there a way to preserve the beginning and ending spaces in the Database xml elements? In other words If I execute this xQuery db:replace("MyDB", "doc.xml", " stefy ") the resulted document will be stefy As you can see I lost my beginner and