Re: [HACKERS] xml2 contrib patch supporting default XML namespaces

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list
> > at:
> >
> >     http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches
> >
> > It will be applied as soon as one of the PostgreSQL committers
> > reviews and approves it.
>
> I was hoping that we're deprecating contrib/xml2, so I wouldn't add more
> features to it.

Author states:

> I understand that XML support is planned and at least partially
> implemented for 8.3, but many production instances will be unable (or,
> in fact, unwilling) to upgrade to 8.3 for quite some time.  Because
> this patch is completely backward compatible it can (theoretically) be
> included in future 8.1 and 8.2 releases, and for those of us that need
> more full XML support in the short term the upgrade of a contrib
> module is probably a very viable option -- it is for me, anyway.

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