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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2006-09-16 16:18:11 +0000
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2006-09-16 16:18:11 +0000
commit1246d797e4b21e5bf4267e8b663057b92258b728 (patch)
treec88e5e616d86090aabc9ee1fb503b71946544c86 /doc/src
parent801cbe3310bc52c0ab41ec66bfe3893a16255189 (diff)
Rename xml_valid() to xml_is_well_formed(), but provide a temporary
alias with the old name for backwards compatibility. Per discussion, the old name is actively wrong because validity and well-formedness have different meanings in XML.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
index ac632ee3778..5bca7c418f3 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 1.174 2006/09/16 00:30:12 momjian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml,v 1.175 2006/09/16 16:18:11 tgl Exp $ -->
<chapter id="datatype">
<title id="datatype-title">Data Types</title>
@@ -3345,8 +3345,8 @@ SELECT * FROM pg_attribute
<para>
<filename>/contrib/xml2</> has a function called
- <function>xml_valid()</> that can be used in a <literal>CHECK</>
- constraint to enforce that a field contains valid <acronym>XML</>.
+ <function>xml_is_well_formed()</> that can be used in a <literal>CHECK</>
+ constraint to enforce that a field contains well-formed <acronym>XML</>.
It does not support validation against a specific <acronym>XML</>
schema. A server-side language with <acronym>XML</> capabilities
could be used to do schema-specific <acronym>XML</> checks.