Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>Let me point out an implementation I made last time this subject was
>discussed:
>
>http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/xmltable.tar.bz2
>
>This package contains server-side functions that convert a table (more
>generally a query result) to an XML document and/or and XSL schema both
>mimicking the SQL/XML standard.
>
>Additionally, it contains a function to convert such an XML document
>back to a table source. I also threw in an XSLT stylesheet to convert
>an SQL/XML table to an HTML table, so you can more easily view the
>results.
>
>I also have some code in development that adds cursor interfaces, an XML
>data type, and some integration with the existing XPath functionality.
>I think that for processing XML in the database and as far as following
>the existing standards, this is the direction to take.
>
>
>
Peter: this looks very nice. What are your intentions with this code?
Put it in contrib? Also, do you intend to implement the SQL/XML
functions XMLElement, XMLForest, XMLAttributes, XMLConcat and XMLAgg?
cheers
andrew