On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Jeff Davis<pgsql@j-davis.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 00:01 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> The JSON transformation provides functionality which is very similar
>> to what we also offer for XML. I sort of think we ought to just
>> provide that, rather than making it an add-on. I have found it to be
>> a tremendously attractive alternative to XML.
>
> It's worthwhile to think about how we can fit our special cases into
> general APIs -- particularly when we have two similar special cases like
> JSON and XML.
I agree. The way we handle XML is with special syntax that is
hard-coded into the parser. If there is a more flexible solution I'm
all for it, but I'm not sure this is it.
...Robert
