Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>Perhaps the document should be stored in canonical form.
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>That kills the DTD, the id attributes, thus crippling XPath, and it
>looks horrible on output. I don't think that can be accepted.
>Canonical form is useful for comparing documents, but not for operating
>on them, I think.
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OK, fair enough.
What exactly do we expect the functionality of an xml type to be? Merely
a guarantee that it is well-formed?
cheers
andrew
