On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:33 PM, David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> wrote:
> Minor quibble with the regression tests: should we be using
> dollar quotes in things like this? Doubled-up quote marks:
>
> SELECT xpath_exists('//town[text() =
> ''Cwmbran'']','<towns><town>Bidford-on-Avon</town><town>Cwmbran</town><town>Bristol</town></towns>'::xml);
>
> Dollar quote:
>
> SELECT xpath_exists($$//town[text() =
> 'Cwmbran']$$,'<towns><town>Bidford-on-Avon</town><town>Cwmbran</town><town>Bristol</town></towns>'::xml);
Personally, I don't really see that as an improvement. Dollar-quotes
are really nice for longer strings, or where you would otherwise have
quadrupled quotes (or more), but I don't see a big advantage to it
here. Still, it's a question of opinion more than anything else.
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