On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Rick Measham wrote:
I'd love to see an XML parser embedded into SQL so that I can have: CREATE TABLE aTable (id serial, data XML);
On 5 Feb 2004, at 05:21 pm, Chris Devers replied:
Does this help?
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Is this along the lines of what you were hoping for?
Thanks Christ, but not really at all. What I want is the ability to use XML as a data type so that I can have a field full of XML that is searchable. The output would be the'zactly the same as current output. The input would be XML as a string:
> INSERT INTO data (id, user, data) VALUES (1, 'rick','<user><name>Rick</name><surname>Measham</surname></user>');
> INSERT INTO data (id, user, data) VALUES (2, 'rick02','<user><name>Rick</name><surname>Smith</surname></user>');
# And then I could retrieve it:
> SELECT * FROM data WHERE data:user:name='Rick'
id | user | data ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | rick | <user><name>Rick</name><surname>Measham</surname></user> 2 | rick02 | <user><name>Rick</name><surname>Smith</surname></user> (2 rows returned)
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