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FUNCTIONS / XML FUNCTIONS

xml_is_well_formed

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These functions check whether a text string represents well-formed XML, returning a Boolean result.

Signatures & examples

xml_is_well_formed ( text ) → boolean
These functions check whether a text string represents well-formed XML, returning a Boolean result. xml_is_well_formed_document checks for a well-formed document, while xml_is_well_formed_content checks for well-formed content. xml_is_well_formed does the former if the xmloption configuration parameter is set to DOCUMENT, or the latter if it is set to CONTENT. This means that xml_is_well_formed is useful for seeing whether a simple cast to type xml will succeed, whereas the other two functions are useful for seeing whether the corresponding variants of XMLPARSE will succeed.
Version history 2
  1. PG 12 → 13changed
  2. PG 9.0 → 9.1added

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