Before you begin, just check the Makefile, and then just 'make' and
'make install'.
-This code requires libxml to be previously installed.
+By default, this module requires both libxml2 and libxslt to be installed
+on your system. If you do not have libxslt or do not want to use XSLT
+functions, you must edit the Makefile to not build the XSLT functions,
+as directed in its comments; and edit pgxml.sql.in to remove the XSLT
+function declarations, as directed in its comments.
Description of functions
------------------------
The first set of functions are straightforward XML parsing and XPath queries:
-xml_valid(document) RETURNS bool
+xml_is_well_formed(document) RETURNS bool
This parses the document text in its parameter and returns true if the
-document is well-formed XML.
+document is well-formed XML. (Note: before PostgreSQL 8.2, this function
+was called xml_valid(). That is the wrong name since validity and
+well-formedness have different meanings in XML. The old name is still
+available, but is deprecated and will be removed in 8.3.)
xpath_string(document,query) RETURNS text
xpath_number(document,query) RETURNS float4
--SQL for XML parser
-CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION xml_valid(text) RETURNS bool
+CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION xml_is_well_formed(text) RETURNS bool
AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C STRICT IMMUTABLE;
+-- deprecated old name for xml_is_well_formed
+CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION xml_valid(text) RETURNS bool
+ AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME', 'xml_is_well_formed' LANGUAGE C STRICT IMMUTABLE;
+
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION xml_encode_special_chars(text) RETURNS text
AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME' LANGUAGE C STRICT IMMUTABLE;
DROP FUNCTION xml_encode_special_chars(text);
+-- deprecated old name for xml_is_well_formed
DROP FUNCTION xml_valid(text);
+
+DROP FUNCTION xml_is_well_formed(text);
static xmlXPathObjectPtr pgxml_xpath(text *document, xmlChar * xpath);
-Datum xml_valid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS);
+Datum xml_is_well_formed(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS);
Datum xml_encode_special_chars(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS);
Datum xpath_nodeset(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS);
Datum xpath_string(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS);
/* Returns true if document is well-formed */
-PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(xml_valid);
+PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(xml_is_well_formed);
Datum
-xml_valid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+xml_is_well_formed(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
{
- /* called as xml_valid(document) */
+ /* called as xml_is_well_formed(document) */
xmlDocPtr doctree;
text *t = PG_GETARG_TEXT_P(0); /* document buffer */
int32 docsize = VARSIZE(t) - VARHDRSZ;
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml,v 1.174 2006/09/16 00:30:12 momjian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml,v 1.175 2006/09/16 16:18:11 tgl Exp $ -->
<chapter id="datatype">
<title id="datatype-title">Data Types</title>
<para>
<filename>/contrib/xml2</> has a function called
- <function>xml_valid()</> that can be used in a <literal>CHECK</>
- constraint to enforce that a field contains valid <acronym>XML</>.
+ <function>xml_is_well_formed()</> that can be used in a <literal>CHECK</>
+ constraint to enforce that a field contains well-formed <acronym>XML</>.
It does not support validation against a specific <acronym>XML</>
schema. A server-side language with <acronym>XML</> capabilities
could be used to do schema-specific <acronym>XML</> checks.