I am referring to to this Github repo:

https://github.com/apache/uima-uimafit <https://github.com/apache/uima-uimafit>

Thought it was published by you as a mirror of the SVN repo or the other way 
around.

The trimming is as such not a technical issue for me right now but I felt it 
might become important in some other case. I just noticed it when I added 
ekstra spaces to improve readability of my output. Initially I thought it was 
the HTMLConverter but when I inspected it then I could see that it had happened 
somewhere before configuration parameter initialisation.

I then inspected the descriptor right after creation as you suggested. The 
value was not trimmed at that point. Later during runtime initialisation 
without doing any XML serialization this time, the value is trimmed inside 
ConfigurationManagerImplBase::getConfigParameterValue right after the lookup 
operation (used debugger for value inspection). This was inside a UIMA core 
component though but the trim occurs somewhere between descriptor creation and 
AE initialisation. Seems this is not an UIMAfit issue afterall.

I did a small example app where the HTMLAnnotator and HTMLConverter descriptors 
were also aggregated before execution but here the trimming did not materialise 
at runtime but only in the serialised XML. Then it occurred to me that my 
example used the SimplePipeline whereas our main application uses CPE. I then 
switched to the SimplePipeline and the trimming was now gone there as well. 
Seems that trimming only happens inside the CPE and when XML serialising the 
pipeline.


Cheers,
Mario

> On 14 Jun 2015, at 17:02 , Richard Eckart de Castilho <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Just as a quick feedback: uimaFIT (mind capitalization) is maintained in SVN, 
> not in git. 
> 
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/uima/uimafit
> 
> I have no idea what repository you are referring to ;)
> 
> Regarding the trimming, I have no idea right away. The parameter values are 
> passed around quite a bit.
> 
> Do you see a trimming when you create just a standalone descriptor for the 
> HTMLConverter with uimaFIT (outside an aggregate) and when serializing that 
> to XML? If yes, do you see the trimming before serializing it when you 
> directly access the parameter values from the AnalysisEngineDescription that 
> uimaFIT has created for you?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Richard
> 
> On 14.06.2015, at 14:37, Mario Gazzo <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Using the new gapText parameter in UIMA Ruta HTMLConverter I noticed that 
>> the string is trimmed in the pipeline aggregation process e.g. “   .   “ 
>> ends up as “.” in the pipeline and when writing the pipeline to XML. I don’t 
>> think it has anything to do with the HTMLConverter in particular. We use 
>> UIMAfit to construct the aggregated analysis engine description but I don’t 
>> know where this trimming exactly occurs. I was also able to run a small 
>> example pipeline where the trim did not happen, which was a bit of a 
>> surprise. Does anyone have an idea what could be the cause and whether its 
>> somehow controllable?
>> 
>> We use a branch of UIMAfit that fixed some resource binding issue and we are 
>> currently on commit e9b32e30895443b9f93fef65453593dd1533c7d0 with UIMA 2.7.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Mario
>> 
> 

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