Re: Revisited: Oracle and the empty string

On 01.10.10 21:47, Thomas Fischer wrote:
> In my experience, it is no problem if you keep that fact in mind. It just
> makes the code non-portable to another database (you only query for not
> null and know it's also not empty in oracle, but not dor other databases).
> Is it a problem for yaou if "" and null get mapped to the same value ?

Unfortunately it is. The XML processing is different for these cases.
Suggestions are welcome. Patch it in the template to some strange value?
Other ideas?

Bye, Thomas