Dear BaseX team,

I think I observed a bug concerning trailing whitespace in text nodes.

Please consider this input document:

<para>xxx    <emphasis role="italic">abc</emphasis> yyy.</para>

[Note the blanks between xxx and <emphasis>.]

The result of the following "null-transformation"

=======================

declare function local:edit($n as node())
        as node()? {
    typeswitch($n)
    case document-node() return
        document {for $c in $n/node() return local:edit($c)}
    case element() return
        element {node-name($n)}
            {for $ac in $n/(@*, node()) return local:edit($ac)}
    default return $n
};
local:edit(.)

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should be identical, but what I get is this:

<para>xxx<emphasis role="italic">abc</emphasis>yyy.</para>

The blanks after "xxx" are gone!

When transforming mixed content like docbook, this can have awkware consequences.

Kind regards,

Hans-Jürgen