Re: xpath_list() question for contrib/xml2

Added to TODO:

* Add xpath_array() to /contrib/xml2 to return results as an array

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John Gray wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:53:47 -0800, Ron Mayer wrote:
>
> > Short summary:
> >
> > I want something like xpath_list() that returns an array
> > (instead of a delimited, concatenated string) when multiple
> > nodes exist in an XML file. It feels to me like that'd
> > be a better (cleaner) API.
> >
>
> Yes. It's been at the back of my head that it would be a nice idea - when
> I first started on contrib/xml and /xml2 array support was rather
> primitive.
>
> > Before I write one, does anyone already have such a
> > patch? If not, would people be interested if I added
> > xpath_array() that behaves like xpath_list() but returns
> > an array instead of one big string?
> >
> > Or... is xpsql on gborg or some other postgresql-xml project a better
> > place for me to be looking?
> >
>
> Well, if you like the way that contrib/xml2 works, I would add it there,
> but I'm obviously biased. It could just be another wrapper around
> pgxml_xpath but use its own traversal of the nodeset instead of
> pgxmlnodesettotext. I can't speak for whether anyone else is doing
> anything similar, but I haven't heard anyone say so!
>
> Thanks for your interest
>
> John
>
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