<text>show users</text>
<parameter name='encoding' value='ISO-8859-1'/>
</command>
</pre>
* This example creates a new database from the specified input and retains all whitespaces ({{Mark|works since Version 7.1.1}}):
<pre class="brush:xml">
<command xmlns="http://basex.org/rest">
<text>create db test http://files.basex.org/xml/xmark.xml</text>
<option name='chop' value='false'/>
</command>
</pre>