X-Original-To: pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4136BD1B491 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 22:04:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 96635-05 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 18:04:18 -0400 (AST) Received: from curie.credativ.org (credativ.com [217.160.209.18]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CB09D1B477 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 18:04:16 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by curie.credativ.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D213756243; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 23:04:17 +0100 (CET) Received: from colt.pezone.net (dsl-213-023-254-001.arcor-ip.net [213.23.254.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by curie.credativ.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1AB15623C; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 23:04:16 +0100 (CET) From: Peter Eisentraut To: Andrew Dunstan , PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: Encoding problems in PostgreSQL with XML data Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 23:04:16 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <303E00EBDD07B943924382E153890E5434AA48@cuthbert.rcsinc.local> <3FFF129E.6020109@dunslane.net> In-Reply-To: <3FFF129E.6020109@dunslane.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401092304.16549.peter_e@gmx.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS at credativ.com X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200401/219 X-Sequence-Number: 48943 Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Perhaps the document should be stored in canonical form. That kills the DTD, the id attributes, thus crippling XPath, and it looks horrible on output. I don't think that can be accepted. Canonical form is useful for comparing documents, but not for operating on them, I think.