From: | Mike Rylander <mrylander(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com |
Cc: | PostgreSQL <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: xpath not a good replacement for xpath_string |
Date: | 2009-07-28 20:00:10 |
Message-ID: | b918cf3d0907281300k7d3530c8ta59e33c75804eb62@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:21 PM, <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com> wrote:
> Sorry to bring this up, I know you've been fighting about XML for a while.
>
> Currently, I am using XML2 functionality and have tried to get the newer
> XPath function to work similarly, but can't quite seem to do it.
>
> I think the current xpath function is too limited. (The docs said to post
> problems to hackers if I have an issue.)
>
> For instance, we have a web application that uses java with an XML class
> serializer/deserializer Xstream. It creates XML that looks like this:
>
> <com.company.local.myclass>
> <uuid>b5212259-a91f-4dca-a547-4fe89cf2f32c</uuid>
> <email>joe(at)somedomain(dot)com</email>
> </com.company.local.myclass>
>
> My current strategy is to use xml2 as:
>
> select xpath_string(datum, E'/com\.company\.local\.myclass/uuid) as uuid
> from table;
>
> Which produces a usable:
> b5212259-a91f-4dca-a547-4fe89cf2f32c
>
> I have been trying to use xpath
> select xpath(E'/com\.company\.local\.myclass/uuid', XMLPARSE(CONTENT
> datum)) as uuid from table;
>
> Which produces an unusable:
> {<uuid>b5212259-a91f-4dca-a547-4fe89cf2f32c</uuid>}
>
How about:
SELECT (xpath(E'/com\.company\.local\.myclass/uuid/text()',
XMLPARSE(CONTENT datum)))[1] as uuid from table;
Not as clean, but it produces the same result as xpath_string().
Combined with array_to_string() could can collapse the array instead
of just grabbing the first element (in cases other than uuid, of
course).
--
Mike Rylander
| VP, Research and Design
| Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts
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