From: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Rita <rmorgan466(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | "pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: xpath query |
Date: | 2017-01-25 15:29:46 |
Message-ID: | CAKFQuwYGZuemzWhEUJPHXmUyCgyD-Wb4q9MTZkL8U7ZA0x_1Dg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 7:02 PM, Rita <rmorgan466(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Using postgresql latest for a project.
>
> I have a XML document which I would like to store in a table and query it
> using xpath function.
>
> My document looks like this:
>
> <ca>
> <c>
> <a n="color"><s>red</s></a>
> <a n="year"><i>1995</i></a>
> </c>
> </ca>
>
> How can I extract color. expected value is "red"
>
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/functions-xml.html
> Also, is it better to dump the data into a table and then use some sort of
> trigger to parse it into a more normalized format for querying or is it
> better to to leave it as a XML dump and have the application handle the XML
> parsing?
>
It depends.
David J.
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