Re: correct format for date, time, timestamp for XML functionality

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 20. Februar 2007 16:54 schrieb Andrew Dunstan:
>
>> I'm not sure that we are actually guaranteeing anything about XML
>> validity against any schema or DTD, are we?
>>
>
> That is the "xmlschema" part of table_to_xmlschema() et al. recently
> discussed.  That entire functionality hinges on producing output that
> validates against XML Schema schemas, and so we cannot pick the data type
> formats outselves.
>
>
Then why would we use a setting to govern this? Should we not simply
ensure that we always output timestamps in XML using the correct ISO8601
format?

cheers

andrew