Is there any TODO here?

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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Enrico Sirola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > -- bad
> > select xpath('name(/my:a/*[last()])', test, ARRAY[ARRAY['my',
> > 'http://myns.com/ns']]) from test;
> 
> You could barely swat a fly with what I know about XPath ... but I'm
> thinking that the culprit here is the crock at lines 3254-3288 of
> xml.c, which explains itself thus:
> 
>     /*
>      * To handle both documents and fragments, regardless of the fact whether
>      * the XML datum has a single root (XML well-formedness), we wrap the XML
>      * datum in a dummy element (<x>...</x>) and extend the XPath expression
>      * accordingly.  To do it, throw away the XML prolog, if any.
>      */
> 
> This code prefixes the given path expression with "/x", which of course
> is going to break any expression that starts with a function name.  It
> would have to stick the /x inside the function argument to have any
> chance of working.  In general, I think this has zero chance of working
> without implementing a pretty complete XPath parser.  We need to find
> another way.
> 
>                       regards, tom lane
> 
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