From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Encoding problems in PostgreSQL with XML data
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 17:50:37 -0500
Message-ID: <3FFF303D.2070604@dunslane.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401092304.16549.peter_e@gmx.net>
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<200401092304.16549.peter_e@gmx.net>
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>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.
>
>
OK, fair enough.
What exactly do we expect the functionality of an xml type to be? Merely
a guarantee that it is well-formed?
cheers
andrew
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