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In addition, databases may considerably increase in size, as whitespaces used for indenting an XML document will be interpreted and stored as additional text nodes. If your XML resources are structured and have no [[Full-Text#Mixed Content|mixed content]], it is advisable to enable whitespaces stripping when importing them to a database.
Note that {{Option|STRIPWS}} only applies to stored XML and not to XML constructed within XQuery source files. Within XQuery sources code, the standard {{Code|boundary-space}} setting applies. This defaults to {{Code|strip}}. To preserve XML whitespace in XQuery source modules, add the following to the prolog:
<syntaxhighlight lang="xquery">
declare boundary-space preserve;
