When loading tree structured XML file into postgresql is it necessary to remove the C

[btroberts]

To illustrate the issue here is a very basic XML file that is structured with indents and has CR/LF characters.

<Book>
<Title>Database How To</Title>
</Book>

If I try to copy this into the postgresql database with the following sql.

COPY BOOKS from 'books.txt';

I get an error. "Entity: line 1: parser error : Premature end of data in tag Book."

I can successfully load the file if I structure the file differently so that all the xml is on one line as per below.


<Book><Title>Database How To</Title></Book>

This leads me to think that I need to unstructure the XML so each entry is on one line.

Is there any method to load without having to parse the file via "sed" to remove all CR/LF characters?