You are right; I had a typo : contents is content Thanks for replying ... Guy Rouillier wrote: > Marian POPESCU wrote: >> There is also a weird thing: >> >> >> 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. > > Makes me think you have null values in the resultset. >