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Re: returning PGresult as xml

Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>

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From: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-01-30T22:48:03Z
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Peter Eisentraut kirjutas N, 29.01.2004 kell 19:31:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > Peter: this looks very nice. What are your intentions with this code?
> 
> Once we figure out how to handle the on-the-wire character set recoding 
> when faced with XML documents (see separate thread a few weeks ago), I 
> would like to finish it.
> 
> > Put it in contrib? Also, do you intend to implement the SQL/XML
> > functions XMLElement, XMLForest, XMLAttributes, XMLConcat and XMLAgg?
> 
> You have to implement these directly in the parser, which I'm not yet 
> excited about.

Why not use some standard parser ?

libxml2 (www.xmlsoft.org) seems nice and is either available as a
separate dynamic library or can also be (IIRC) configured to build with
just the minimal needed functionality.

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Hannu