> > [removing -patches since no patch was attached] > This sounds highly specialised, and probably more appropriate for a > pgfoundry project. > > In any case, surely the whole point about XML is that you shouldn't need > to contruct custom parsers. Should we include a specialised parser for > evey XML dialect someone might want to store in the database?
XML is not really much more than a language, it says virtually nothing about content. Content requires custom parsers. While I understand the notion that we don't want to have a custom parser for every XML data spec, I did commit the xmldbx extension into the PHP extensions. MySQL has great street cred because it is very well integrated with PHP. This extension may appeal to PHP users and make it more enticing to PostgreSQL instead. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
