Dear talk at x-query.com, there should be a way to get 'items' back out of Xquery, one per line, without having to hardwire 0x0A (you know, $ perl -wle 'printf "%08b\n" , ord"\n"' 00001010 into the code, as discussed in https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/pipermail/basex-talk/2012-March/002738.html ) ...or require a post-processor.