Marian, > 1. > SELECT > xpath_nodeset(xml_data, '/mydocument/body/chapter/contents/paragraph[@objid > = "02"]|/mydocument/body/paragraph[@objid="87"]') > FROM xmltable > WHERE id = 3 You could maybe use the xpath: '//paragraph[@objid = "02"]' if you want all paragraphs at all document levels. A nice xslt reference is: file:///home/cnagy/offline/XSLTreference/Output/index.html There you can also exercise your xpath skills... Cheers, Csaba.
