Re: Correcting misplaced spaces in XML documents

On Mon, 2023-03-27 at 20:00 +0000, Eliot Kimber
eliot.kimber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> You can also use XQuery databases like BaseX to do the updating but
> that takes a bit more work to set up the writing of the result back
> out and the database may not always preserve all the document details
> the way Oxygen or Saxon will.

You don't have to use a database - or even have a database server
running - to use BaseX for this. Although if you do ahve a server
running, you can avoid the Java runtime startup time, of course.

Just use doc() and, if needed, file:write() and serialize().

I think these days BaseX no longer strips whitespace-only text nodes by
default, thankfully.

liam


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