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Sets whether DOCUMENT or CONTENT is implicit when converting between XML and character string values. See Section 8.13 for a description of this. Valid values are DOCUMENT and CONTENT. The default is CONTENT. According to the SQL standard, the command to set this option is SET XML OPTION { DOCUMENT | CONTENT }; This syntax is also available in PostgreSQL.

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boot val

content

category

Client Connection Defaults / Statement Behavior

context

user

documented

true

enumvals

content, document

extra desc

Unknown

lang

en

max val

Unknown

metadata version

18

min val

Unknown

name

xmloption

short desc

Sets whether XML data in implicit parsing and serialization operations is to be considered as documents or content fragments.

source

pg-settings-source-snapshot

unit

Unknown

vartype

enum