Re: xpath processing brain dead - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: xpath processing brain dead
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In response to Re: xpath processing brain dead  (Hannu Krosing <hannu@2ndQuadrant.com>)
Responses Re: xpath processing brain dead  (Hannu Krosing <hannu@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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Hannu Krosing wrote:
> Is it just that in you _can't_ use Xpath on fragments, and you _need_ to
> pass full documents to Xpath ? 
> 
> At least this is my reading of Xpath standard.

It is easy to read the XPath standard that way, because the concept of 
fragments is not defined outside of SQL/XML, and is therefore unknown to 
the XPath standard.  The question at hand is rather whether we can 
usefully adapt it.


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