On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote: > On fre, 2010-07-30 at 12:50 +0100, Mike Fowler wrote: >> > * xml_is_well_formed returns true for simple text >> > >> > postgres=# SELECT xml_is_well_formed('ssss'); >> > xml_is_well_formed >> > -------------------- >> > t >> > (1 row) >> > >> > it is probably wrong result - is it ok?? >> > >> >> Yes this is OK, pure text is valid XML content. > > Are you speaking of XML content fragments that SQL/XML defines? > > Well-formedness should probably only allow XML documents.
I think the point of this function is to determine whether a cast to xml will throw an error. The behavior should probably match exactly whatever test would be applied there. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers