Re: proposal casting from XML[] to int[], numeric[], text[]

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: "Nikolay Samokhvalov" <nikolay(at)samokhvalov(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: proposal casting from XML[] to int[], numeric[], text[]
Date: 2007-10-08 10:53:38
Message-ID: 200710081253.39227.peter_e@gmx.net
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Am Freitag, 28. September 2007 schrieb Nikolay Samokhvalov:
> what should be returned for XML like "<em><strong>PostgreSQL</strong>
> is a powerful, open source relational database system</em>" if user
> requests for text under "em" node? In XML world, the correct answer is
> "PostgreSQL  is a powerful, open source relational database system" --
> concatenation of all strings from the node itself and all its
> descendants, in the correct order. Will be this expected for RDBMS
> users?).

Well, if that is the defined behavior for XPath, then that's what we should
do.

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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