2015-03-23 12:40 GMT+01:00 Ramesh T <[email protected]>:
> Hi all,
> SELECT xmlagg(xmlelement(
> name actor, xmlattributes(first_name)
> )ORDER BY actor_id,',')from actor;
>
> the above code return following result,
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
> Question :
>
> i want retrieve result from above XML result like
> penelope,nick,jennifer,jhony,,,,,
>
>
result of xmlagg is not valid xml.
if you use xmlelement, then you can get valid xml
ostgres=# select * from x;
a
---------------------------------------------------------------
<d><actor first_name="Pavel"/><actor first_name="Tomas"/></d>
(1 row)
postgres=# select unnest(xpath('//actor/@first_name',a)::text[]) from x;
unnest
--------
Pavel
Tomas
(2 rows)
Regards
Pavel
>
> xpath is their but unable to fix this query.
>
> any help how to get only names from query not xml.
>
>
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