Peter Eisentraut wrote: > I've found a web page that contains some examples of the use of the > features in the proposed SQL/XML standard (as implemented by Oracle). > This should give us some ideas about what to aim for. > > http://otn.oracle.com/tech/xml/xmldb/htdocs/sql_xml_codeexamples.html > > The third example converts a query result to an XML document. (Notice > that they do not do this at the protocol level.) The other examples > process XML data within SQL using XPath/XQuery-type operations.
IMHO, I think that makes a lot of sense. The xml mapping can be done at the server (via internals) or the client (like psql html). The current protocol works in either case: why complicate it? It's also worth noting they use wc3 schemas. Merlin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html
