Re: BUG #16046: xpath returns CDATA tag along with the value in postgres 12

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: mostafa_bit0108(at)hotmail(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net>, Markus Winand <markus(dot)winand(at)winand(dot)at>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: BUG #16046: xpath returns CDATA tag along with the value in postgres 12
Date: 2019-10-24 21:38:11
Message-ID: 10621.1571953091@sss.pgh.pa.us
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PG Bug reporting form <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> While using xpath to extract text from a CDATA section of xml, it returns
> CDATA tag along with the value.
>
> Query: SELECT unnest(xpath('//cname/aname/text()','<cname><aname><![CDATA[select 5]]></aname></cname>'::xml))
>
> Output - pg11: select 5
>
> Output - pg12: <![CDATA[select 5]]>

I haven't actually bisected to make sure, but I imagine this is a
consequence of commit 251cf2e27bec98274e8bb002608680bdc211319e.
What's not entirely clear to me is whether it's an intentional
effect, or a bug. Authors, any comments?

regards, tom lane

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