The issue has been resolved; a new snapshot is available [1].

Cheers,
Christian

[1] https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.basex.org%2Freleases%2Flatest%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cas.clark%40northeastern.edu%7C7855ddec53b14a21ffc908d8f1340474%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C637524553003250437%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=elTY1qlLs0pMEgOaoAj2v4P4cIqSNqJLbCCurNSR9Q0%3D&reserved=0


On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 7:24 PM Christian Grün
<christian.gruen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> …you’re right, now I got it. I’ve added an issue to track this down [1].
>
> Thanks,
> Christian
>
> [1] https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FBaseXdb%2Fbasex%2Fissues%2F1997&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cas.clark%40northeastern.edu%7C7855ddec53b14a21ffc908d8f1340474%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C637524553003250437%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=e8iel97fguBQfHW1j8MnSn3cMH0AqhDLg7gEok8%2B%2F%2FI%3D&amp;reserved=0
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 7:11 PM Clark, Ash <as.clark@northeastern.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Christian,
> >
> > Thanks! I’m using version 9.5. (I upgraded in case that solved things.)
> >
> > To be clear, you’re comparing the stored documents "/test-ns/snippet.xml" and "/test-ns/workaround.xml", right? The results from update:output() should be fine.
> >
> > Warmly,
> > Ash
> > ________________________________
> > From: Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com>
> > Sent: Friday, March 26, 2021 2:02 PM
> > To: Clark, Ash <as.clark@northeastern.edu>
> > Cc: basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de <basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de>
> > Subject: Re: [basex-talk] Missing namespaces when storing an excerpt?
> >
> > Hi Ash,
> >
> > Thanks for the reproducible example code.
> >
> > On my system, the root elements of both $snippet and $workaround have
> > the 'https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2005%2Fxpath-functions&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cas.clark%40northeastern.edu%7C7855ddec53b14a21ffc908d8f1340474%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C637524553003250437%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=oU8KFhHXsAneX%2FsiX1tVbeR2Ugy3vRWgw9HUf5gYgZ0%3D&amp;reserved=0' namespace (and
> > deep-equal($snippet, $workaround) yields true). Are you working with
> > the latest version of BaseX?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Christian
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 6:53 PM Clark, Ash <as.clark@northeastern.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I’m pulling JSON from an API, converting the string to the XML representation, and storing part of the resulting XML into BaseX. The problem is, I can’t get the xmlns namespace declaration to stick to the XML excerpt once it’s saved to BaseX. It seems to work when I display the unstored excerpt.
> > >
> > > Here’s a short XQuery that illustrates my problem. Am I missing something? Is this a bug?
> > >
> > >
> > > xquery version "3.1";
> > >
> > > (:  NAMESPACES  :)
> > >   declare default element namespace "https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2005%2Fxpath-functions&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cas.clark%40northeastern.edu%7C7855ddec53b14a21ffc908d8f1340474%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C637524553003250437%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=oU8KFhHXsAneX%2FsiX1tVbeR2Ugy3vRWgw9HUf5gYgZ0%3D&amp;reserved=0";
> > >   declare namespace db="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbasex.org%2Fmodules%2Fdb&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cas.clark%40northeastern.edu%7C7855ddec53b14a21ffc908d8f1340474%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C637524553003250437%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=cQAIbgNu4k6iRKfzXbXokZTU2sbNbrBP5EAUY4DAd2o%3D&amp;reserved=0";
> > >   declare namespace output="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2010%2Fxslt-xquery-serialization&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cas.clark%40northeastern.edu%7C7855ddec53b14a21ffc908d8f1340474%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C637524553003260404%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=DFQ0zGsi3FI8TwlDP0oZEhYsO5bffZPEk1EiDp6oo6Y%3D&amp;reserved=0";
> > >   declare namespace update="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbasex.org%2Fmodules%2Fupdate&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cas.clark%40northeastern.edu%7C7855ddec53b14a21ffc908d8f1340474%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C637524553003260404%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=1e1BeaRPhhe%2FyyFeAgblrsRz3O8zjjW8M1TDWA0UnjI%3D&amp;reserved=0";
> > > (:  OPTIONS  :)
> > >   declare option db:chop 'false';
> > >   declare option db:stripns 'false';
> > >   declare option output:indent 'yes';
> > >   declare option output:method 'xml';
> > >
> > > (:  MAIN QUERY  :)
> > >
> > > let $uri :=
> > >   "https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwwp.northeastern.edu%2Fexist%2Frest%2Fdb%2Fexhibits%2Fxquery%2Fpeople.xquery%3Ffile%3Dcaldwell.tenthmuse.xml&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cas.clark%40northeastern.edu%7C7855ddec53b14a21ffc908d8f1340474%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C637524553003260404%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=nL3vISKcGagPIRYo3VjpWcI8iiWf9FQ3e2Se24dqZ18%3D&amp;reserved=0"
> > > let $full := json-to-xml(unparsed-text($uri))
> > > let $snippet := $full/fn:array/fn:map[1]
> > > let $workaround :=
> > >   <map xmlns="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2005%2Fxpath-functions&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cas.clark%40northeastern.edu%7C7855ddec53b14a21ffc908d8f1340474%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C637524553003260404%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=B%2FZpfWQdJFbdaY21vK3zBw66Okz0k%2Fl%2FXXym%2BLfmJ2Y%3D&amp;reserved=0">{ $snippet/* }</map>
> > > return (
> > >     db:create("test-ns",
> > >               ($full, $snippet, $workaround),
> > >               ("full.xml", "snippet.xml", "workaround.xml")),
> > >     update:output(($snippet, $workaround))
> > >   )
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for your time!
> > >
> > > Warmly,
> > > Ash
> > >
> > > Ash Clark (my pronoun.is/e/em/eir)
> > > XML Applications Developer
> > > Digital Scholarship Group
> > > Northeastern University Libraries
> > > as.clark@northeastern.edu
> > > (617) 373-5983