Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes: > Here's a patch that fixes the patterns for numeric entities, tag names, > and removes the upper case 'X' case in the special case for an XML > prolog. There are still some oddities, but I decided against making > heroic efforts to fix them. It's probably less important if the patterns > are slightly too liberal (e.g. accepting <a href="qwe<qwe>"> ) than if > they don't recognize what they are alleged to recognize. I don't approve of the changes to the exposed token type names, but the state machine changes seem sane first-glance. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> I don't approve of the changes to the exposed token type names, but >> the state machine changes seem sane first-glance. > Well, I think it's just plain wrong to describe as HTML tags and > entities things that just aren't. Maybe, but "HTML-type" is an unhelpful description. Isn't there a more general markup standard that subsumes both HTML and XML? (I seem to recall that SGML might be that, but not sure.) regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes: > Am Montag, 19. November 2007 schrieb Tom Lane: >> Maybe, but "HTML-type" is an unhelpful description. Isn't there a more >> general markup standard that subsumes both HTML and XML? (I seem to >> recall that SGML might be that, but not sure.) > I think "XML tag" would actually cover anything that would be valid as an HTML > tag. +1 for "XML tag", then. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend