Re: [basex-talk] Server protocol bug?

The behavior is correct indeed. But I agree it is surprising, and it has not properly been documented so far:

declare option output:json "lax";

This is a shortcut for "lax=true". Thus, the boolean value will always be appended in the string representation, no matter if it has been specified in the original serialization option.

I event tried setting cdata-section-elements to "pre, code" and the response had a double comma ("cdata-section-elements=pre,,code,method=xml")

Single commas will be duplicated, such that they can be distinguished from option separators. This was only documented for the BINDINGS option, but not it's also documented for serialization parameters [1] and the server protocol.

Thanks, Christian

[1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Options#SERIALIZER