Re: generic options for explain

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>
> In libxml-enabled builds at least, this could presumably be done fairly
> easily via the XML functions, especially if we get XSLT processing into the
> core XML functionality as I hope we can do this release. In fact, the
> ability to leverage existing XML functionality to munge the output is the
> thing that swings me in favor of XML as the machine readable output format
> instead of JSON, since we don't have and aren't terribly likely to get an
> inbuilt JSON parser. It means we wouldn't need some external tool at all.

I was thinking something similar, but from the pgAdmin perspective. We
already use libxml2, but JSON would introduce another dependency for
us.

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