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It would be useful to understand what the following expression results in when boundary whitespace is set to strip. <a> <![CDATA[ ]]> {"abc"}</a>
Michael, In a meeting on 6/29/05, the Query Working Group considered your comment and decided that the following text in XQuery Section 3.7.1.4 is sufficiently clear: "For this purpose, characters generated by character references or by CDataSections are not considered to be whitespace characters." The result of your example expression is as follows: <a> {"abc"}</a> The working group does not believe it is necessary to include this example in the XQuery specification. Since you labeled it as Editorial, I will mark the bug report as Closed.
Thanks. I assume that you mean the result is <a> abc</a>. Best regards Michael
Of course you are right. Sorry for the error.