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Functions / Xml Functions

xml_is_well_formed_content

Read the PG 18 manual

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

Reading PG 18current·documented in 17 of 27 versions, 9.1 to 20

Signatures & examples

xml_is_well_formed_content ( 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. 12 → 13 changed
  2. 9.0 → 9.1 added

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