sparikh wrote > Thanks David for your quick response. My original objective was to get the > value of a particular node in xml which is stored as text datatype in the > table. > > For example : > > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > - > <settings> > - > <F999> > <amperage> > 16 > </amperage> > <amperagesteps/> > </F9999> > </settings> > I want to extract the value of amperage as '16'. Like that I may have many > nodes in xml want to get the report to show them in different columns. I > used to do this with oracle using xml functions provided. > > Trying to figure out same in postgres. > > Thanks again for your help. And the same goes for PostgreSQL but you need to use the correct data types; xml functions operate on XML instead of TEXT because that way they don't really need to deal with bad text input - the type conversion function takes care of making sure the text is valid XML. David J. -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/xpath-functionerror-tp5793724p5793742.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
