Hi Montse,

I believe the current behavior is correct. The important feature of your example is that the XML is constructed in the XQuery source.
In this case the, somewhat obscure, boundary-space setting applies [1]. This has been discussed on the list [2]

Your example works for me if the boundary-space preserve setting is added...
```
declare boundary-space preserve;
let $doc := <doc><entry><sense id='1'><def>Gente grosera o vulgar.</def><cit><quote><seg>La</seg> <oRef>chusma</oRef>.</quote></cit></sense></entry></doc>

return $doc/entry//sense[@id = '1']
```
Best regards
/Andy

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-31/#id-boundary-space-decls
[2] https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/pipermail/basex-talk/2016-September/011251.html


On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 at 09:38, Montserrat Matías <mmatias@rae.es> wrote:

Hello.

 

I have a bug with BaseX version 10 and higher related to handling whitespaces in documents with mixed content elements.

 

I'm working with narrative documents (TEI).

Following the instructions in the documentation about this type of documents (containing mixed elements) I have disabled the indentation and the STRIPWS option.

 

When I execute queries with connection to the database, the result is as explained in the documentation (blanks are preserved).

 

However, when I use the BaseX libraries to execute queries in a local context (without a connection to the database) the spaces are sometimes removed.

Same error if I run the query in the Database Administration interface.

 

Query:

db:option('stripws')

 

Result:

false

 

Query:

db:option('serializer')

 

Result:

map{"omit-xml-declaration":"yes","binary":"yes","method":"basex","use-character-maps":"","tabulator":"no","allow-duplicate-names":"no","media-type":"","doctype-public":"","escape-uri-attributes":"no","standalone":"omit","csv":map{"lax":true(),"backslashes":false(),"separator":"comma","allow":"","header":false(),"quotes":true(),"format":"direct"},"indents":2,"json-node-output-method":"xml","json":map{"escape":true(),"strings":false(),"lax":false(),"indent":(),"format":"direct","merge":false()},"doctype-system":"","item-separator":(),"indent":"no","suppress-indentation":"","byte-order-mark":"no","include-content-type":"yes","encoding":"UTF-8","newline":"\n","normalization-form":"none","html-version":"","version":"","limit":-1,"undeclare-prefixes":"no","cdata-section-elements":"","parameter-document":""}

 

Query:

let $doc := <doc><entry><sense id='1'><def>Gente grosera o vulgar.</def><cit><quote><seg>La</seg> <oRef>chusma</oRef>.</quote></cit></sense></entry></doc>

return $doc/entry//sense[@id = '1']

 

Result:

<sense id="1"><def>Gente grosera o vulgar.</def><cit><quote><seg>La</seg><oRef>chusma</oRef>.</quote></cit></sense>

 

The whitespace contained between the </seg> and <oRef> tags has been stripped.

 

In version 9.3.5 this problem did not occur.

 

Can you please have a look at this? In a TEI document whitespaces are important.

 

Thanx in advance,

Montse.


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