Hi Satheesh, Thanks for your comments. I've included some responses inline below.
Susan --- Satheesh Bandaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ snip ] > > There is no way to extract parts of XML documents out into SQL world, which > could allow you to do order by. > > However, you may be able to write your own Java function that takes > serialized XML as function argument along with XPath expression and return > your item of interest. You could then order by on this expression, thanks to > Tomohito's extension to ORDER BY. Okay, I may or may not look into this, but thanks for the suggestion. > > If you are doing all this, then why even store XML documents in XML type and > not just use CLOB or VARCHAR? In the application I am using I want the database to return XML. But given the inability of Derby to perform this type of query at the present time I may just do the parsing of the XML document on the client. [snip] > Thanks for trying Derby XML... and for being brave to figure out > dependencies! Hopefully 10.2 XML support would be more complete and show up > in documentation. You bet! > On 3/31/06, Susan Cline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I've looked at some of the tests for the XML support but I am still > > confused if this is possible or not. Given a table created with > > an xml column: > > > > create table xmlTab (id integer, xml_col xml); > > > > Containing these two xml documents: > > > > <Contact> > > <id>1</id> > > <firstname>Susan</firstname> > > <lastname>Cline</lastname> > > </Contact> > > > > <Contact> > > <id>2</id> > > <firstname>Apache</firstname> > > <lastname>User</lastname> > > </Contact> > > > > I'd like to come up with a query that returns results ordered by > > firstname (or any other element in the XML document.) > > [snip]
