Marian, On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 17:47, Marian POPESCU wrote: > SELECT > xpath_nodeset(rawdata, '/mydocument/body/chapter/contents/paragraph') > FROM xmldocuments > > will output > > xpath_nodeset > ---------------- > (empty line) > (empty line) > (empty line) > (empty line) > > 4 record(s) selected [Fetch MetaData: 0/ms] [Fetch Data: 1/ms] > > [Executed: 8/7/06 5:42:54 PM CEST ] [Execution: 3/ms] > > - (empty line) is what I wrote to say that there was nothing on output - > which makes me think there is something wrong with XPath implementation. In the first email you said this works for you... the only difference I find in the query from there and here is that you schema-qualified the xmldocuments table in your last mail. Are you sure there's no weirdness in your schemas, with some other table with the same name in another schema coming in your way ? Cheers, Csaba.