Re: XML with invalid chars

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: XML with invalid chars
Date: 2011-05-11 23:39:22
Message-ID: 4DCB1E2A.4050209@dunslane.net
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On 05/11/2011 07:00 PM, Noah Misch wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 06:17:07PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> On 05/09/2011 11:25 PM, Noah Misch wrote:
>>> SELECT xmlcomment(E'\ufffe');
>> That's a bit harder. Do we want to extend these checks to cover
>> surrogates and end of plane characters, which are the remaining
>> forbidden chars? It certainly seems likely to be a somewhat slower test
>> since I think we'd need to process the input strings a Unicode char at a
>> time, but we do that in other places and it seems acceptable. What do
>> people think?
> My thinking was that we should only make this flag day for xml-type users if
> we're going to fix it all the way.

Fair enough.

cheers

andrew

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