Re: xpath not a good replacement for xpath_string - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: xpath not a good replacement for xpath_string
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Msg-id 4A6FC2D0.6060409@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: xpath not a good replacement for xpath_string  (pgsql@mohawksoft.com)
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pgsql@mohawksoft.com wrote:
>
> Another thing that is troubling is that more exotic types do not seem to
> be supported at all. For instance, in my example I used uuid, and if one
> substitutes "uuid()" for "text()" that doesn't work.
>
>   


text() is an XPath function, with well defined semantics that have no 
relation at all to types in a PostgreSQL sense. uuid() of course has no 
meaning in an XPath expression.

cheers

andrew


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