Re: about missing xml related functionnalities

On 2 November 2016 at 21:12, Jean-Paul Jorda
<jean-paul(dot)jorda(at)edpsciences(dot)org> wrote:
> Hi,
> I send this email after reading the xml2 module « Deprecation notice » in
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/xml2.html.
>
> I still use xml2 module for one thing: xslt_process(). We store some
> data in xml fields, and we sometime need to correct / upgrade the format.
> Being able to apply a xslt transformation is a very efficient way to
> achieve that.
>
> So, as far as I'm concerned, xslt transformation appears to be a missing
> fuctionnality in the newer api.

It is, but so far nobody has stepped up to do the work required to
implement it in core.

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