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? -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
