On 2023-Aug-25, Chapman Flack wrote: > On 2023-08-25 10:49, Vik Fearing wrote: > > I do not think this should be addressed in this patch because > > there are quite a lot of functions that need to handle this. > > Indeed, as described in [0], we still largely provide the SQL/XML:2003 > notion of a single XML datatype, not the distinguishable XML(DOCUMENT), > XML(CONTENT), XML(SEQUENCE) types from :2006 and later, which has a > number of adverse consequences for developers[1], and that wiki page > proposed a couple possible ways forward[2].
Sadly, all the projects seem to have been pretty much abandoned in the meantime. Zorba has been dead for 9 years, xqilla for 6. Even XQC, the API they claim to implement, is dead. It sounds unlikely that there is *any* way forward here. -- Álvaro Herrera 48°01'N 7°57'E — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/ "El Maquinismo fue proscrito so pena de cosquilleo hasta la muerte" (Ijon Tichy en Viajes, Stanislaw Lem)