RE: boundary whitespace question

By the way, that one sentence or something similar would add useful
information to the discussion on boundary whitespace in the XQuery 1.0
document.
Best,
Howard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-ql-request@w3.org [mailto:www-ql-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of
> Michael Rys
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 1:59 PM
> To: Howard Katz; www-ql@w3.org
> Subject: RE: boundary whitespace question
>
>
>
> 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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