Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> How do you treat columns whose names are not legal XML names?
There are escape mechanisms in place. You can verify yourself how they
work using
select xmlelement(name "something unusual");
> I'm glad to see you treat NULL as an attribute - that's definitely
> the right way I think.
The standard provides for the option of representing them the way I
showed or omitting them.
> Have you thought about possibly using a standard encoding (e.g.
> base64) for bytea? Not sure what the standard says on encoding.
It says to use base64 or hex. You can also verify that yourself using
select xmlelement(name foo, bytea 'something');
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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/