Andrew Dunstan wrote: > How do you treat columns whose names are not legal XML names?
There are escape mechanisms in place. You can verify yourself how they work using select xmlelement(name "something unusual"); > I'm glad to see you treat NULL as an attribute - that's definitely > the right way I think. The standard provides for the option of representing them the way I showed or omitting them. > Have you thought about possibly using a standard encoding (e.g. > base64) for bytea? Not sure what the standard says on encoding. It says to use base64 or hex. You can also verify that yourself using select xmlelement(name foo, bytea 'something'); -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
