Hi Andy, > Can the WebDAV serialization be set independently of the default, in > web.xml?
The defaults for whitespace chopping and serialization can only be assigned globally for all features of BaseX. Did you try to set both 'org.basex.chop' and 'org.basex.serializer' in web.xml / does it introduce other unwanted side effects? Cheers, Christian > /Andy > > On 7 August 2017 at 09:57, Christian Grün <christian.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Dear Ottid, >> >> Thanks for providing us with the helpful example, which helped me to >> understand the problem. >> >> >> replace /a <root xml:space="preserve"><a><b>foo</b></a> bar</root> >> > "a.xml" (Line 1): Open quote is expected for attribute "xml:space" >> > associated with an element type "root". >> >> Just a side note: Command-line parsing is restrictive when it comes to >> replacing XML. The reason is that is possible to send multiple >> commands in a single line, as shown in the following example: >> >> create db db; replace /a <a/>; xquery . >> >> >> >> xquery /root >> > <root><a><b>foo</b></a> bar</root> >> >> You may be surprised to hear that whitespaces in your document were >> actually chopped, and that the whitespaces are added by the >> serializer, because the "indent" serialization parameter is by default >> set to "yes". >> >> It was surprised to see that no one else pointed at this so far, and >> that was not mentioned in our documentation, so I have just added some >> explanatory lines [1,2]. >> >> Some more technical background: >> >> If you call BaseX the "info storage" command, you will see which XML >> nodes are stored in the document: >> >> > set chop on;create db db <a> </a>; info storage >> CHOP: true >> Database 'db' created in 11.0 ms. >> PRE DIS SIZ ATS ID NS KIND CONTENT >> ----------------------------------------- >> 0 1 2 1 0 0 DOC db.xml >> 1 1 1 1 1 0 ELEM aIf >> >> > set chop off;create db db <a> </a>; info storage >> CHOP: false >> Database 'db' created in 20.12 ms. >> PRE DIS SIZ ATS ID NS KIND CONTENT >> ----------------------------------------- >> 0 1 3 1 0 0 DOC db.xml >> 1 1 2 1 1 0 ELEM a >> 2 1 1 1 2 0 TEXT >> >> Serialization indentation was a chosen as default because it goes hand >> in hand with the CHOP option. It even works fine if CHOP is disabled >> if a document has whitespaces included (in which case no whitespaces >> will be added by the serialized). But it may definitely cause >> undesirable output if a document contains no superfluous whitespaces, >> such as in your case. >> >> Hope this helps, >> Christian >> >> [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Options#CHOP >> [2] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Full-Text#Mixed_Content > >
