Dear Maud,
sorry for the delay... here's finally some feedback!
I need BaseX not to chop whitespaces while creating DBs out of my XML texts. [...] But could someone please show me how to write it as a REST POST request ?
Thanks for this hint. We have decided to enhance our REST API to allow the specification of database options. You can now add the "chop=false" parameter to stop the whitespace normalization of documents (I've updated the documentation [1] and latest releases [2]).
I looked at examples here http://docs.basex.org/wiki/REST#Command_Line but always get a "Nodes must belong to "http://www.basex.org/rest"" error...
As Thomas already noted, the namespace has changed from 7.0.2 to 7.1 (and will now stay as it is ;).
Hope this helps, Christian
[1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/REST [2] http://files.basex.org/releases/latest/