Added to TODO: * Add xpath_array() to /contrib/xml2 to return results as an array --------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Gray wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:53:47 -0800, Ron Mayer wrote: > > > Short summary: > > > > I want something like xpath_list() that returns an array > > (instead of a delimited, concatenated string) when multiple > > nodes exist in an XML file. It feels to me like that'd > > be a better (cleaner) API. > > > > Yes. It's been at the back of my head that it would be a nice idea - when > I first started on contrib/xml and /xml2 array support was rather > primitive. > > > Before I write one, does anyone already have such a > > patch? If not, would people be interested if I added > > xpath_array() that behaves like xpath_list() but returns > > an array instead of one big string? > > > > Or... is xpsql on gborg or some other postgresql-xml project a better > > place for me to be looking? > > > > Well, if you like the way that contrib/xml2 works, I would add it there, > but I'm obviously biased. It could just be another wrapper around > pgxml_xpath but use its own traversal of the nodeset instead of > pgxmlnodesettotext. I can't speak for whether anyone else is doing > anything similar, but I haven't heard anyone say so! > > Thanks for your interest > > John > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? > > http://archives.postgresql.org > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
