Dear Christian, thank you very much for this detailed explanation, and I understand your decision to leave things as they are, for the time being, very well. I will proceed to adapt my programs to the current version.
Cordial greetings, Hans-Jürgen Christian Grün <christian.gr...@gmail.com> schrieb am 10:53 Samstag, 13.September 2014: Dear Hans-Jürgen, > perhaps I misunderstand something, but I would have thought that > "copy-namespaces inherit" has nothing to do with database vs. file system. Yes, generally, all XQuery features are completely database-agnostic. The problem is that it is much more straightforward and efficient to support the copy-namespaces options in XML main-memory fragments than it is in a database representation (and BaseX has to deal with both representations, in contrast to Saxon, Zorba, XMLPrime, MXQuery, and others). Of course, this is only my experience with BaseX (and as far as I know there is no other database-centered XQuery processor that provides bug free support of this option). > Let me briefly report to you WHY I need to attach namespaces independently > of their use in element and attribute names. [...] Thanks for presenting your scenario. I don't have an intermediate idea how to add namespace declarations without XQuery 3.0 (maybe someone else has?), so it's probably best if you stick with Version 7.7 of BaseX for now. I am sorry for that, and I can understand your point of view that the "new behavior is a bug". From our point of view, the old behavior of BaseX was just as buggy, even if it did not fail in your use cases, and hard to maintain. I would love to see this fixed in 8.0, but it's a question of free time and resources (my day is limited to 24 hours..). Christian
