On 03/23/19 18:22, Tom Lane wrote: >> Out of curiosity, what further processing would you expect libxml to do? > > Hm, I'd have thought it'd try to parse the arguments to some extent, > but maybe not. Does everybody reimplement attribute parsing for > themselves when using PIs?
Yeah, the content of a PI (whatever's after the target name) is left all to be defined by whatever XML-using application might care about that PI. It could have an attribute=value syntax inspired by XML elements, or some other form entirely, but there'd just better not be any ?> in it. Regards, -Chap