Thanks Martin and Michael for the “sofortige Antoworten”. Forgive my lack of understanding about the particular of whitespace processing and how BASEX deals with them. To answer Martin’s questions: 1) I stored that xml (as I do all of my email) in the database using this commands in the basex shell: ADD TO PROSE.test test.xml after I created the file in vi on my desktop. I had no xml preamble or any processing instructions about the whitespace. 2) I am also querying in the basex using XQUERY.
In short,I need to get the result with the actual text node after the element I target, even if it is null, not the next element’s non-null text. Given my storage, is adjusting the XPATH the way Kristian suggested the best way to achieve my goal? Concretely, how can I adjust how XQUERY executes the path directly to deal with the whitespace issue? I cannot use parse-xml(). Do I add the -w option to the XQUERY that I call from the basex client? And concretely, how can I store the XML with preamble or processing instruction about whitespace to achieve my result? > On Feb 26, 2019, at 05:50, Michael Seiferle <m...@basex.org> wrote: > > Hi Mark, > Hi Martin, > > yes Martin is right, the whitespace will be chopped by default leading to the > observed behavior. > > If you wanted to preserve whitespace globally, you can do that when creating > your database. > If you only want to preserve whitespace for a given element you may do this > as well: > >> let $db := >> '<text id="test"> >> <clause xml:space="preserve"> >> <word>A</word>a >> <word>B</word> >> <word>C</word>c >> </clause> >> </text>' => parse-xml() (: have to actually parse it for the whitespace >> preserve to have a an effect :) >> >> return $db//word/concat(text(), ' ', >> normalize-space(./following-sibling::text()[1])) > > Which returns: >> A a >> B >> C c > > > Best > Michael > >> >> Am 26.02.2019 um 09:48 schrieb Martin Honnen <martin.hon...@gmx.de >> <mailto:martin.hon...@gmx.de>>: >> >> >> I think the result you get is caused by whitespace chopping during XML >> parsing, seems to be the default, >> seehttp://docs.basex.org/wiki/Command-Line_Options >> <http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Command-Line_Options> >> -w Toggles whitespace chopping of XML text nodes. By default, whitespaces >> will be chopped. >> >> >> >
