On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:15:33 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
On sön, 2011-07-10 at 11:40 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
Hackers,

>> B. 6. Current behaviour _is intended_ (there is "if" to check node type) and _"natural"_. In this particular case user ask for text content of some node, and this content is actually "<".
>
> I don't buy that. The check for the node type is there because
> two different libxml functions are used to convert nodes to
> strings. The if has absolutely *zero* to do with escaping, expect
> for that missing escape_xml() call in the "else" case.
>
> Secondly, there is little point in having an type XML if we
> don't actually ensure that values of that type can only contain
> well-formed XML.

Can anyone else weigh in on this? Peter?

Looks like a good change to me.
I'll bump it in few hours, as I can't recall password from keyring. Now I have hands clean and it's not my business to care about this.

Best regards.
Radek.


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