Re: xml type and encodings

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Montag, 15. Januar 2007 17:33 schrieb Florian G. Pflug:
>> Would this mean that if the client_encoding is for example latin1, and I
>> retrieve an xml document uploaded by a client with client_encoding utf-8
>> (and thus having encoding="c" in the xml tag), that I would get a
>> document with latin1 encoding but saying that it's utf-8 in it's xml tag?
>
> That is likely to be a consequence of this proposed behaviour, but no doubt
> not a nice one.

Couldn't the server change the encoding declaration inside the xml to
the correct
one (the same as client_encoding) before returning the result?
Otherwise, parsing the xml on the client with some xml library becomes
difficult, because the library is likely to get confused by the wrong
encoding tag - and you can't even fix that by using the correct client
encoding, because you don't know what the encoding tag says until you
have retrieved the document...

greetings, Florian Pflug