Re: So what about XSLT? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: So what about XSLT?
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Msg-id 48A59125.1010806@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: So what about XSLT?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: So what about XSLT?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>   
>> An open task in replacing contrib/xml2 is the XSLT support, which the current 
>> core implementation lacks altogether.  I am known to often be in favor of a 
>> lean core, so I have so far been hesitant to push this further, but we should 
>> eventually come up with an implementation for the users' sake.
>>     
>
>   
>> So where should XSLT functionality live:
>>     
>
> That question is unanswerable except in the context of a specific
> proposal for the amount of functionality and code involved.  To take
> it to extremes: if you are talking about adding 100 lines, no one will
> object to putting it in core; if you are talking about adding 100000
> lines, some of us will object.  I suppose you are thinking of something
> in between, but what?
>
>   

well, contrib/xml2/xslt_proc.c has 172 lines. So I suggest we just 
import that to core and drop the rest of the module as redundant.

cheers

andrew


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