- From: Michael Rys <mrys@microsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:59:28 -0700
- To: "Howard Katz" <howardk@fatdog.com>, <www-ql@w3.org>
It would be (1) since the removal is governed at the syntactic and not
runtime level.
Best regards
Michael
> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-ql-request@w3.org [mailto:www-ql-request@w3.org] On Behalf
Of
> Howard Katz
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 1:53 PM
> To: www-ql@w3.org
> Subject: boundary whitespace question
>
>
> In the absence of an xmlspace preserve declaration, what's the result
in
> XQuery of boundary whitespace removal on the following constructed
> element:
>
> <a>{()} </a>
>
> Is it (1) or is it (2)?
>
> (1) <a></a>
>
> (2) <a> </a>
>
> In other words, is boundary whitespace removal governed by the
presence of
> an enclosed expression, or by the presence of an enclosed expression
that
> evaluates to a non-empty result?
>
> TIA
> Howard
>
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