From 03d2a1c688cf00cbfeb513f33094965a3ae41ff0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:09:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Slight adjustments to xml documentation to reflect
functionality just added.
---
doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml | 17 ++++++++---------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
index f68714bd20f..34af82629ed 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml,v 1.182 2006/12/21 16:05:12 petere Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml,v 1.183 2006/12/22 22:09:31 momjian Exp $ -->
<chapter id="datatype">
<title id="datatype-title">Data Types</title>
@@ -3373,7 +3373,7 @@ SELECT * FROM pg_attribute
<para>
The data type <type>xml</type> can be used to store XML data. Its
- advantage over storing XML data in, say, a text field is that it
+ advantage over storing XML data in a <type>text</type> field is that it
checks the input values for well-formedness, and there are support
functions to perform type-safe operations on it; see <xref
linkend="functions-xml">. Currently, there is no support for
@@ -3381,15 +3381,14 @@ SELECT * FROM pg_attribute
</para>
<para>
- <acronym>XML</> (Extensible Markup Language) support is not one
- capability, but a variety of features supported by a database
- system. These capabilities include storage, import/export,
- validation, indexing, efficiency of modification, searching,
+ <acronym>XML</> (Extensible Markup Language) support is not
+ just the existance of an <type>xml</type> data type, but a
+ variety of features supported by a database system. These
+ capabilities include import/export, indexing, searching,
transforming, and <acronym>XML</> to <acronym>SQL</> mapping.
<productname>PostgreSQL</> supports some but not all of these
- <acronym>XML</> capabilities. Future releases of
- <productname>PostgreSQL</> will continue to improve <acronym>XML</>
- support. For an overview of <acronym>XML</> use in databases, see <ulink
+ <acronym>XML</> capabilities. For an overview of <acronym>XML</>
+ use in databases, see <ulink
url="http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/XMLAndDatabases.htm"></>.
</para>
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