[HACKERS] XML type and XPath

2007-01-29 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Now that the xml type as per SQL:2003 is pretty much finished, one starts to wonder about what useful things one might do with it. What we have so far contains only functions to construct XML values from SQL data, but there is nothing that you can do with the type at the moment except look at

Re: [HACKERS] XML type and XPath

2007-01-29 Thread Nikolay Samokhvalov
BTW, Moreover, I would like xpath_string() which return On 1/29/07, Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] So, while I realize that I've been arguing for a lean core recently, I want to propose that we add a small set of XPath support functions to the core. This would come down to