2010/7/31 Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote:
>> On fre, 2010-07-30 at 12:50 +0100, Mike Fowler wrote:
>>> > * xml_is_well_formed returns true for simple text
>>> >
>>> > postgres=# SELECT xml_is_well_formed('ssss');
>>> > xml_is_well_formed
>>> > --------------------
>>> > t
>>> > (1 row)
>>> >
>>> > it is probably wrong result - is it ok??
>>> >
>>>
>>> Yes this is OK, pure text is valid XML content.
>>
>> Are you speaking of XML content fragments that SQL/XML defines?
>>
>> Well-formedness should probably only allow XML documents.
>
> I think the point of this function is to determine whether a cast to
> xml will throw an error. The behavior should probably match exactly
> whatever test would be applied there.
I agree with this idea - so I am able to do:
postgres=# select 'xxx'::xml;
xml
-----
xxx
(1 row)
I have not any suggestions now - so I'll change flag to "ready to commit"
Regards
Pavel Stehule
>
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