Our Plum buildbot is failing to build eXist WARs for various reasons, so I set up a build setup on my local machine and did a fresh build of eXist with no modifications. Since it worked, I thought I'd test MoEML on it. The upshot is:

• Everything basically works fine, and the whitespace-node-loss bug is fixed (although when you change preserve-whitespace-mixed-content to "yes" in conf.xml, you then have to re-upload all your documents for the change to take effect).
• The upload-sync script Greg wrote was failing because the last_modification_date.xql script would not run on the /db root collection without a logon (because it was accessing the security collection in system). Changing the script to use the admin logon when checking the date, rather than only when uploading to the db, fixes the problem.