Re: XML export

From: Theo Schlossnagle <jesus(at)omniti(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Theo Schlossnagle <jesus(at)omniti(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: XML export
Date: 2007-02-10 19:39:47
Message-ID: 0B357317-54C6-4BC8-AA03-8252D160E197@omniti.com
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On Feb 10, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> The issue of XML export has been discussed a few times throughout
>> history. Right now you've got the HTML output in psql. A few
>> people have proposed "real" XML output formats in psql or elsewhere.
>>
>> I dug out some old code today that implements what SQL/XML has to say
>> on the matter and fitted the code to work with the current XML
>> support
>> in the backend.
>>
>> Below are examples of what it can do. I'm thinking about hosting
>> this
>> on PgFoundry, but if the crowd thinks this should be somewhere else,
>> short of the moon, let me know.
>>
>
> Integrated, native XML support can only help PostgreSQL. IMO, I want
> this in core.

Agreed. In the server would be more useful to more people I think.
It would be really convenient to be able to have "no effort" XML
results sets to queries.

// Theo Schlossnagle
// Principal(at)OmniTI: http://omniti.com
// Esoteric Curio: http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/

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