XML output & multiple SELECT queries

From: Peter Billen <peter(at)clueless(dot)be>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: XML output & multiple SELECT queries
Date: 2008-06-14 09:50:39
Message-ID: 20080614115039.90n2ocnylxnoss8w@webmail.clueless.be
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Dear PostgreSQL users,

I would like to ask a question about outputting data as XML. Say I have two
tables:

team(integer id, text name);
player_of_team(integer id, integer team_id, text name); (team_id is FK to
team.id)

I would like to query both tables to get following example XML output:

<team name="Real Madrid">
<players>
<name>Garcia</name>
<name>Robinho</name>
</players>
</team>

Is this possible in one query? I'm thinking about something like this, but I
haven't figured it out so far:

SELECT XMLElement(name team, XMLAttributes(name as name), SELECT XMLElement(name
players, XMLForest(name)) FROM player_of_team WHERE team_id = t.id) FROM team t
WHERE t.name = 'Real Madrid';

In other words, is it possible to nest multiple SELECT queries in the XML output
functions?

Thanks in advance. Kind regards,

Peter

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