Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes: > Own implementation of SQL/XML generating functions like XMLFOREST or > XMLELEMENT should not be too > difficult. Significantly more difficult problem is parsing of XML (more > with namespaces), although some basic > support for XMLTABLE should not be too hard too.
I don't think anybody really wants to roll our own XML parser.
Maybe. I think the fundamental problem here, similar to what we've run into elsewhere, is that we chose a library to depend on without thinking hard enough about whether it would be well-supported in the long run. I see little reason to think that that risk would be less for some random not-written-in-C implementation. If we want to jump ship away from libxml2, we had better ask hard questions about the new choice.
