New "AS XML" feature

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 10/31/08 1:35 AM, "Thorsten Hohage" <thohage at genericobjects.de> wrote:

> 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.

Hi All,
Hi Ivan,

We just yesterday with Ivan have discuss this CDATA issue.

I think Ivan right today will check MS SQL work in this regard
and let us know results. Then we decide how to change it.


William,

What type has this field?
    <VoyageNumber>SS501</VoyageNumber>



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