Re: [PATCH] Add CANONICAL option to xmlserialize

[Pavel Stehule]

ne 25. 8. 2024 v 20:57 odesílatel Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com>
napsal:

> Hi
>
> so 24. 8. 2024 v 7:40 odesílatel Jim Jones <jim.jo...@uni-muenster.de>
> napsal:
>
>>
>> On 19.06.24 10:59, Jim Jones wrote:
>> > On 09.02.24 14:19, Jim Jones wrote:
>> >> v9 attached with rebase due to changes done to primnodes.h in 615f5f6
>> >>
>> > v10 attached with rebase due to changes in primnodes, parsenodes.h, and
>> > gram.y
>> >
>> v11 attached with rebase due to changes in xml.c
>>
>
> I try to check this patch
>
> There is unwanted white space in the patch
>
> -<-><--><-->xmlFreeDoc(doc);
> +<->else if (format == XMLSERIALIZE_CANONICAL || format ==
> XMLSERIALIZE_CANONICAL_WITH_NO_COMMENTS)
> + <>{
> +<-><-->xmlChar    *xmlbuf = NULL;
> +<-><-->int         nbytes;
> +<-><-->int
>
> 1. the xml is serialized to UTF8 string every time, but when target type
> is varchar or text, then it should be every time encoded to database
> encoding. Is not possible to hold utf8 string in latin2 database varchar.
>
> 2. The proposed feature can increase some confusion in implementation of
> NO IDENT. I am not an expert on this area, so I checked other databases.
> DB2 does not have anything similar. But Oracle's "NO IDENT" clause is very
> similar to the proposed "CANONICAL". Unfortunately, there is different
> behaviour of NO IDENT - Oracle's really removes formatting, Postgres does
> nothing.
>
> Regards
>

I read https://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n11/ and if I understand this document,
then CANONICAL <> "NO INDENT" ?

Regards

Pavel



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