greg@turnstep.com writes:
> I don't agree with this: XML and XHTML are two different things.
No one claimed anything to the contrary.
> We could certainly upgrade the HTML portion, but I am pretty sure that
> the XML standard calls for this format:
>
> <columnname>data here</columnname>
The XML standard does not call for any table format. But a number of
table formats have been established within the XML framework. Some of
them are formatting-oriented (e.g., the HTML model, or CALS which is used
in DocBook) and some of them are processing-oriented (e.g., SQL/XML).
Which do we need? And which do we need from psql in particular (keeping
in mind that psql is primarily for interactive use and shell-scripting)?
In any case, it should most likely be a standard table model and not a
hand-crafted one.
(If, for whatever reason, we go the "processing-oriented" route, then I
claim that there should not be a different output with and without \x
mode.)
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net
