indent parameter

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Hans-Juergen Rennau <hrennau at yahoo.de> wrote: > Hello, > > it seems to me there is a couple of issues concerning the handling of > indentation (serialization parameter "indent"). > > a) Using "indent=no" whitespace-only text nodes between element nodes are > removed > b) Using "indent=yes" the content of elements with xml:space="preserve" is > indented, too > > I suppose both behaviors are in contraction to the spec ( > http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-xquery-serialization/#xml-indent ). > > As a particular consequence, (a) seems to preclude making an exact copy of a > document (fragment) - all whitespace-only text nodes vanish. > > And as a consequence of (b) one has no possibility to locally protect the > whitespace used in the source document, as required for example when reusing > "programlisting" elements of docbook. > > Or did I overlook something? > > Kind regards, > Hans-Juergen > > > _______________________________________________ > BaseX-Talk mailing list > BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de > https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk >

> Hi Christian, > > thank you very much! So I had overlooked the option -w, which enables the > preservation of whitespace-only text nodes. For practical purposes, I can > now achieve what I need - an exact copy of a source fragment: using "-w -s > indent=no". > > Only one issue remains: the indentation does not honour > "xml:space='preserve'". > > Example: > Input: > <a xml:space="preserve"><b/></a> > > Call: > basex -i input.xml -s indent=yes -q. > > Result: > <a xml:space="preserve"> > <b/> > </a> > > Cordial greetings, > Hans-Juergen > > ________________________________ > Von: Christian Grün <christian.gruen at gmail.com> > An: Hans-Juergen Rennau <hrennau at yahoo.de> > CC: BaseX <basex-talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de> > Gesendet: 15:50 Mittwoch, 21.November 2012 > Betreff: Re: [basex-talk] indent parameter > > Hi Hans-Jürgen, > > you may need to set the CHOP Option to false before creating a > database or document [1]. Do you think this solves the problems? If > no, do you have a small example that demonstrates the confusion? > > Christian > > [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Startup_Options > ___________________________ >