Re: xpath_array with namespaces support

On 4/4/07, Nikolay Samokhvalov <nikolay(at)samokhvalov(dot)com> wrote:
>
>
> So, choosing between two inefficient approaches:
> 1. mine, which in some cases use dummy element wrapping, that we could
> escape;
> 2. proposed by you, which leads to +1 parsing.
> ... I'd definitely choose the first one.
>

I'd make it a bit more clear.

We have different cases for XML value as input of xpath():
a. document with prolog ('<?xml...')
b. document w/o prolog (value that can be represented as a tree -- i.e. we
have one root)
c. fragment with one root element (can be represented as a tree)
d. fragment w/o root element (cannot be represented as a tree, e.g.
'bla'::xml)

So, the current implementation works w/o wrapping in case a) and use
wrapping for cases b)-d).
But we _need_ wrapping _only_ in case d) -- so there is space for
optimization (I would keep bit "this value is not a tree" in the value
itself).

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Best regards,
Nikolay