On 20/03/14 16:57, Hans-Juergen Rennau wrote:
> 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(.)
> =======================
>
> 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