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Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2023 19:02:02 +0200
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>
Cc: Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org>,
	Jim Jones <jim.jones@uni-muenster.de>,
	PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add XMLText function (SQL/XML X038)
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On 2023-Aug-25, Chapman Flack wrote:

> On 2023-08-25 10:49, Vik Fearing wrote:
> > I do not think this should be addressed in this patch because
> > there are quite a lot of functions that need to handle this.
> 
> Indeed, as described in [0], we still largely provide the SQL/XML:2003
> notion of a single XML datatype, not the distinguishable XML(DOCUMENT),
> XML(CONTENT), XML(SEQUENCE) types from :2006 and later, which has a
> number of adverse consequences for developers[1], and that wiki page
> proposed a couple possible ways forward[2].

Sadly, all the projects seem to have been pretty much abandoned in the
meantime.  Zorba has been dead for 9 years, xqilla for 6.  Even XQC, the
API they claim to implement, is dead.

It sounds unlikely that there is *any* way forward here.

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