On Jul 10, 2011, at 1:40 PM, Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> wrote: > 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?
Unless I am missing something, Florian is clearly correct here. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
