-----Original Message----- From: Merlin Moncure Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 3:47 PM To: 'Peter Eisentraut' Subject: RE: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] XML ouput for psql
My 0.2$: keep the xml formatting rules as simple as possible and rely on xslt to do the document markup (going out) and schemas/xslt to do the validation (going in). This would allow flexibility for any type of application. Without that stuff just do very basic <column>data</column>. There are many excellent free tools for xml manipulation which imho are the best thing about xml. Xml datasets that are not nested tend to get verbose :( Merlin > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 12:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: PostgreSQL Development > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] XML ouput for psql > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > I don't agree with this: XML and XHTML are two different things. > > No one claimed anything to the contrary. > > > We could certainly upgrade the HTML portion, but I am pretty sure that > > the XML standard calls for this format: > > > > <columnname>data here</columnname> > > The XML standard does not call for any table format. But a number of > table formats have been established within the XML framework. Some of > them are formatting-oriented (e.g., the HTML model, or CALS which is used > in DocBook) and some of them are processing-oriented (e.g., SQL/XML). > Which do we need? And which do we need from psql in particular (keeping > in mind that psql is primarily for interactive use and shell-scripting)? > In any case, it should most likely be a standard table model and not a > hand-crafted one. > > (If, for whatever reason, we go the "processing-oriented" route, then I > claim that there should not be a different output with and without \x > mode.) > > -- > Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
