Re: [basex-talk] whitespace around comments

Hi Jidanni, hi Michael,

our CHOP flag is subject to frequent discussions, which is why we will eventually change the default to FALSE. For now, we are still a little bit resistant, as such a change will change the behavior of existing BaseX applications out there, so we’ll probably combine the switch with the next major release.

For now, you can preserve whitespaces by e.g..

-- adding the line CHOP=false in your .basex configuration file -- using the basex command-line flag -w -- using "set chop false" as first command, or setting the options in any other way described in our Wiki [1].

Hope this helps, Christian

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