I haven't run many tests yet, but importing the file and exporting the files again from the gui only retains 
 Also, when the entity is in decimal (&8332;), it gets transformed to hex (not a big deal in my book). Other entities are 'applied', but not retained.
I'm on BaseX 8.6 beta 4c3daeb On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Christian Grün <christian.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi France, > > > why not implement all the space and joiner entities   to ‍? > > Good idea. I have added even some more characters (see [1]): > > 8192 – 8207 > 8232 – 8239 > 8287 – 8303 > > A new snapshot (close to the final version 8.6) is online [2]; I’be > grateful for some testing feedback! > > Christian > > [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/WebDAV#Resources > [2] http://files.basex.org/releases/latest/ > > > > > On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 4:34 AM, Christian Grün < > christian.gr...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> Hi France, > >> > >> In the database, all Unicode characters will be stored in their > >> standard (decoded) representation. As a result, it is not possible to > >> preserve entities from an original document. For XML serialization via > >> WebDAV, we have one special rule for converting non-breaking spaces > >> (xA0) to entities. Which other Unicode characters would you like to > >> have converted to entities? > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Christian > >> > >> > >> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 7:45 PM, France Baril > >> <france.ba...@architextus.com> wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > When I serialize content to HTML5, I lose some entities. > >> > > >> > xquery: adds '‍' in front of some content and outputs html > >> > html: should have '‍', but doesn't. I've tried with 8204 and even > >> > the > >> > half space 8201. > >> > > >> > The only special space that seems to work is  , but it won't do > for > >> > what I need right now. > >> > > >> > Code sample: > >> > > >> > let $target-table := > >> > copy $copy := $base-table > >> > modify( > >> > for $td in $copy//tr/td[position()=$column-to-filter-by] > >> > let $new-value := ('‍', for $node in $td/node() return > >> > $node) > >> > return replace value of node $td with $new-value > >> > ) > >> > return $copy > >> > > >> > return > >> > $target-table > >> > > >> > > >> > Is there any way to solve this? > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > France Baril > >> > Architecte documentaire / Documentation architect > >> > france.ba...@architextus.com > > > > > > > > > > -- > > France Baril > > Architecte documentaire / Documentation architect > > france.ba...@architextus.com > -- France Baril Architecte documentaire / Documentation architect france.ba...@architextus.com
