I wrote:
> ISTM the right answer is to add xml_is_well_formed() in this release
> and have xml_valid as an alias for it, with documentation explaining
> that xml_valid is deprecated and will be removed in the next release.
Not hearing any objection, I've done this.
> His patch also adds an xpath_array() function --- what do people
> think about that? It's well past feature freeze ... now we've always
> been laxer about contrib than the core code, but still I'm inclined
> to say that that function should wait for 8.3.
I didn't add xpath_array(), but am still open to doing it if there
is any consensus in favor of it.
regards, tom lane