Scott Bailey <artacus@comcast.net> writes:
> If it were possible to drop the xerces dependency from Zorba and use
> libxml2 for parsing, that would be a strong case for it. The other big
> dependency for Zorba was ICU for converting character sets. I'm not
> familiar with that part of Postgres. But it seems to me that we would
> have our own libraries for that sort of thing.
ICU has been an, ahem, bone of contention. Check the archives.
But a patch that depends on it for some second-order reason seems
unlikely to get accepted.
regards, tom lane