Jim Jones <jim.jones@uni-muenster.de> writes:
> On 14.03.23 18:40, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I poked at this for awhile and ran into a problem that I'm not sure
>> how to solve: it misbehaves for input with embedded DOCTYPE.
> The issue was the flag XML_SAVE_NO_EMPTY. It was forcing empty elements
> to be serialized with start-end tag pairs. Removing it did the trick ...
> ... but as a side effect empty start-end tags will be now serialized as
> empty elements
> postgres=# SELECT xmlserialize(CONTENT '<foo><bar></bar></foo>' AS text
> INDENT);
> xmlserialize
> --------------
> <foo> +
> <bar/> +
> </foo>
> (1 row)
Huh, interesting. That is a legitimate pretty-fication of the input,
I suppose, but some people might think it goes beyond the charter of
"indentation". I'm okay with it personally; anyone want to object?
regards, tom lane
