Looks like I was not getting the toggle part correctly. Yes it is very confusing since it says:
"-w Preserve whitespaces from input files" Thanks! I will toggle this now in my internal documentation :-) > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Christian Grün [mailto:christian.gr...@gmail.com] > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2018 14:26 > An: Zimmel, Daniel > Cc: BaseX > Betreff: Re: [basex-talk] Command line options not working with update > operation > on input file > > > With the same query, when CHOP=false in the .basex file and -w switch on the > command line, whitespace gets chopped (not expected!) > > The option is toggled (see one of my previous replies). We should > revise the help text on the command-line in a future version.