In storing some DITA documents into MarkLogic I discovered that the
trailing spaces in the DITA class= attributes are not preserved. I
created a simple test and got the same behavior, e.g.:
xdmp:document-load("test.xml", <root foo=" bar "/>)
<result>{doc("text.xml")/@foo}</result>
Returns:
<result>bar</result>
not
<result> bar </result>
The DITA standard requires the trailing spaces in the class= values
because the value is a sequence blank-delimited tokens where you need to
be able to match on " {token} " so you don't get false positives (for
example, the "topic" type is the token "topic/topic", without the
spaces, a search for "topic/topic" would also match "mytopic/topic-foo",
which would be bad.
My question is: is this behavior unalterable or is it configurable?
This behavior does make it impossible to use DITA documents stored in
MarkLogic with any normal DITA-aware processor (because they all expect
there to be a trailing space in the class= value) without some serious
workaround (essentially a post-fetch fixup to add back in the trailing
space).
Cheers,
Eliot
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Eliot Kimber
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"Bringing Strategy, Content, and Technology Together"
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