Re: Using xpath queries against XML Datatype

"Balma Robin Gordon" <RGBALMA(at)qinetiq(dot)com> wrote:

> [...]
> How do I do this in PostgreSQL? I'm struggling trying to find any
> documentation/examples. The following does not appear to return
> anything, but I'm not sure if I have the syntax quite right:

> select * from sensorML WHERE (xpath('//sml:System/@gml:id',
> "sensorML_xml",
> ARRAY[ARRAY['sml','http://www.opengis.net/sensorML/1.0.1'],ARRAY['gml','
> http://www.opengis.net/sensorML/1.0.1']]))::text

> = 'CTD1454';

xpath () returns an /array/ of XML values; so you have to
either compare the result to an array or just compare the
first element:

| SELECT * FROM sensorML WHERE ((xpath('//sml:System/@gml:id',
| sensorML_xml,
| ARRAY [ARRAY ['sml', 'http://www.opengis.net/sensorML/1.0.1'],
| ARRAY ['gml', 'http://www.opengis.net/gml']])) [1])::TEXT = 'CTD1454';

Tim