New "AS XML" feature

[Thorsten Hohage]

Hi Bart,

On 2008-10-31, at 00:27, Bart Pietercil wrote:

> While I understand that you may not need it , we most certainly need
> the cdata in order to protect the text inside the tag's from being
> misinterpreted by the xml parser.
> What I don't understand is why you would want to suppress it ?


because _some_ xml parser handle this as "binary" data and are not  
able to handle e.g. a search or translation, ... on CDATA content.  
Compare it somehow with varchar <> binary db columns. So I know  
several apps where CDATA was avoided as far as possible.

Furthermore while I understand that it _may_ be easier to handle utf-8  
multilingual text inside of a CDATA - no encoding is needed - I ask  
myself, what sense this would make for a number field?


BUT of course, choosing a good tool and you don't need to worry about.

regards,

Thorsten Hohage
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