22434 2013-06-24 09:18:27 +0000 [FO30] Whitespace in variable markers 2015-01-03 00:15:42 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified XPath / XQuery / XSLT XQuery 3 & XPath 3 Test Suite Candidate Recommendation PC Windows NT RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 tim oneil mike public-qt-comments oldest_to_newest 89745 0 tim 2013-06-24 09:18:27 +0000 F&O3.0 states in 9.8.4.1 The picture string "Whitespace within a variable marker is ignored." Since the variable marker may contain a "first presentation modifier", which may be "... any format token permitted as a primary format token in the second argument of the fn:format-integer function" and whitespace might form a part of such a primary format token (e.g. as a grouping separator), is this correct? I'm not sure there are any tests covering whitespace in the picture string, such as the following: format-date(xs:date('2034-01-02'), "[ Y 9 999 ]") 89748 1 mike 2013-06-24 11:48:40 +0000 Thanks for reporting it. Given that the same text was present in XSLT 2.0, I'm inclined to say that we should take it to mean what it says: whitespace is stripped from the variable marker before you do anything else, which means using space as a grouping separator is not possible. That's not the spec I would write if I were writing it today, but it's hard to argue that it's unclear or contradictory. 89751 2 tim 2013-06-24 13:02:22 +0000 In that case, I'll convert it to a bug against the test suite as a reminder that whitespace in variable markers appears not to be covered. If you concur that format-date(xs:date('2034-01-02'), "[ Y 9 999 ]") is '2034' I'll add it to the test suite in due course. 116732 3 mike 2015-01-03 00:15:42 +0000 I've added test case format-date-028 to test this condition.