Re: XML export

On Feb 10, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> The issue of XML export has been discussed a few times throughout
>> history.  Right now you've got the HTML output in psql.  A few
>> people have proposed "real" XML output formats in psql or elsewhere.
>>
>> I dug out some old code today that implements what SQL/XML has to say
>> on the matter and fitted the code to work with the current XML  
>> support
>> in the backend.
>>
>> Below are examples of what it can do.  I'm thinking about hosting  
>> this
>> on PgFoundry, but if the crowd thinks this should be somewhere else,
>> short of the moon, let me know.
>>
>
> Integrated, native XML support can only help PostgreSQL. IMO, I want
> this in core.

Agreed.  In the server would be more useful to more people I think.   
It would be really convenient to be able to have "no effort" XML  
results sets to queries.

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