Re: So what about XSLT?

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 04:11:11PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> An open task in replacing contrib/xml2 is the XSLT support, which
> the current core implementation lacks altogether. I am known to
> often be in favor of a lean core, so I have so far been hesitant to
> push this further, but we should eventually come up with an
> implementation for the users' sake.
>
> So where should XSLT functionality live:
>
> - core

+1. I've heard rumors of a PL/XSLT. Any substance to them?

> - contrib
> - pgfoundry
>
> There is also a related but minor question where other interesting
> XML functionality should live, such as pretty-printing and
> canonicalization. These would be relatively straightward
> passthroughs to functionality provided by libxml already.
>
> Comments?

Is there some way to do a more generic (de)serialization of which one
target could be XML? CSV could be one, JSON another, and at the
moment, it appears we're taking each of these as a totally separate
project.

Cheers,
David.
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