Re: xpath processing brain dead

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> I don't think it is our responsibility to remedy the deficiencies of 
> libxml2, especially if it involves breaking the processing of valid 
> xpath expressions on well formed XML.

> If someone can come up with a correct scheme for handling fragments, I'm 
> all ears, but otherwise I think a) we should rip this out of 8.4 and b) 
> we should try to make 8.3 slightly less broken at least, along the lines 
> of my earlier suggestion.

I'm okay with removing this for 8.4, but I think it's too late to
change the behavior of 8.3.
        regards, tom lane