Re: Updated version of contrib/xml (at last)

I moved your new version into /contrib/xml2, and kept /contrib/xml
unchanged.

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Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> Patch applied.  Thanks.
>
> I realize the function names have changed, but we want to encourage
> improvement of our xml capabilities.  If folks want the old function
> names, we can put the old code up on gborg.
>
> I updated the README to mention that libxml is now required.
>
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>
>
> John Gray wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks to the generous support of Torchbox (http://www.torchbox.com), I
> > have been able to significantly improve the contrib/xml XPath
> > integration code.
> >
> > New features:
> >
> > * XPath set-returning function allows multiple results from an several
> > XPath queries to be used as a virtual table.
> > * Using libxslt, XSLT transformations (with and without parameters) are
> > supported. (Caution: This support allows generic URL fetching from
> > within the backend as well).
> >
> > I've removed the old code so that it is all libxml based. Rather than
> > attach as a patch, I've put the tar.gz (10k!) at
> > http://www.azuli.co.uk/pgxml-1.0.tar.gz
> > (all files in archive are xml/....).
> >
> > I think this is worth replacing the contrib version with, even though
> > the function names have changed (though the same functionality is
> > there), because it includes a SRF and some SPI usage, in addition to
> > linking to an external library. And it isn't a big module! Obviously, I
> > understand that people might prefer to move it elsewhere, or might have
> > reservations about replacing an existing contrib module with an
> > incompatible one. I'm open to suggestions.
> >
> > Obviously, please also let me know if you find any bugs or platform
> > incompatibilities (I have only one platform, so my testing in that line
> > is non-existent).
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > John
> > --
> > John Gray, Azuli IT
> > jgray@azuli.co.uk
> >
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