Re: returning PGresult as xml

From: Mike Mascari <mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Brian Moore <brianmooreca(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: returning PGresult as xml
Date: 2004-01-26 02:06:53
Message-ID: 4014763D.8030508@mascari.com
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:

>Brian Moore wrote:
>
>
>>i feel badly that i have not been able to use any existing
>>standards. xmlrpc, i found, was not type-rich enough, and that made
>>it difficult or impossible to use. in particular, the only way to
>>represent a matrix is as a struct of structs. this makes it very
>>verbose for one to encode a PGresult. i found SOAP too difficult for
>>compliance. so my result was to create a schema, which results in a
>>DTD.
>>
>>
>
>Let me point out an implementation I made last time this subject was
>discussed:
>
>http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/xmltable.tar.bz2
>
>Also last time this subject was dicussed, I believe it was Mike Mascari
>who proposed and implemented another solution which is more client-side
>oriented.
>
I humbly confess it wasn't me. We use CORBA....

Mike Mascari

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