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diff --git a/contrib/xml2/README.xml2 b/contrib/xml2/README.xml2 index f5335c38b5..c2e7170386 100644 --- a/contrib/xml2/README.xml2 +++ b/contrib/xml2/README.xml2 @@ -21,17 +21,24 @@ you can place it in a different directory in a PostgreSQL tree). Before you begin, just check the Makefile, and then just 'make' and 'make install'. -This code requires libxml to be previously installed. +By default, this module requires both libxml2 and libxslt to be installed +on your system. If you do not have libxslt or do not want to use XSLT +functions, you must edit the Makefile to not build the XSLT functions, +as directed in its comments; and edit pgxml.sql.in to remove the XSLT +function declarations, as directed in its comments. Description of functions ------------------------ The first set of functions are straightforward XML parsing and XPath queries: -xml_valid(document) RETURNS bool +xml_is_well_formed(document) RETURNS bool This parses the document text in its parameter and returns true if the -document is well-formed XML. +document is well-formed XML. (Note: before PostgreSQL 8.2, this function +was called xml_valid(). That is the wrong name since validity and +well-formedness have different meanings in XML. The old name is still +available, but is deprecated and will be removed in 8.3.) xpath_string(document,query) RETURNS text xpath_number(document,query) RETURNS float4 |