Hi Martin,

when serializing text via fn:serialize, fn:xml-to-json, csv:serialize or json:serialize, newlines in the output will be normalized to \n. However, the chosen newline value will indeed be output if you define serialization parameters globally…

(: Variant 1, specific to BaseX :) declare option output:newline '\r'; 1,2

(: Variant 2 :) declare option output:item-separator '
'; 1,2

…or if you pass on serialization parameters to a function that serializes data to somewhere else (e.g., with file:write).

I guess we should describe the details somewhere in our documentation.

Best, Christian

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 11:29 AM Martin Honnen martin.honnen@gmx.de wrote:

When I run

contains(serialize("Line 1.
Line 2.
Line 3.", map { "method" : "text", "newline" : "\r\n" }), '
')

in BaseX 9.0.2 (from the command line basex.bat or in the GUI) I get the result "false" while I expected "true".

Have I not provided the newline option correctly?