Re: BUG #3734: Invalid XML schema output. - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: BUG #3734: Invalid XML schema output.
Date
Msg-id 23592.1195801598@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: BUG #3734: Invalid XML schema output.  (Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler@timbira.com>)
Responses Re: BUG #3734: Invalid XML schema output.  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler@timbira.com> writes:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> Agreed. Feel free to add whitespace before every /> of simple xml elements.
>>
>> Uh, was this done?
>>
> Nope. Attached is a patch that does it.

Er ... why exactly is it a good idea to bloat XML output with cosmetic
whitespace?  I should think that only programs, not humans, read XML for
the most part.

> I'm attaching another cosmetic
> patch that replaces the use of some single quotes with double quotes in
> the XML attributes output.

This part sounds like a good idea, if only because single quotes require
doubling in some situations in SQL-land.

            regards, tom lane

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