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* Selecting data from XML
@ 2012-07-16 19:56 Victor Sterpu <victor@caido.ro>
  2012-07-17 03:23 ` Re: Selecting data from XML Craig Ringer <ringerc@ringerc.id.au>
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From: Victor Sterpu @ 2012-07-16 19:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-sql

If I have a XML like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Errors>
<Error  code="CLIN102" validFrom="1980-02-23"/>
<Error  code="CLIN103" validFrom="1980-02-23" validTo="2012-01-01"/>
</Errors>

can I write a query that will output the columns names and values like this?

code;validFrom;validTo
------------------------------
CLIN102;1980-02-23;
CLIN103;1980-02-23;2012-01-01

Thank you



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* Re: Selecting data from XML
  2012-07-16 19:56 Selecting data from XML Victor Sterpu <victor@caido.ro>
@ 2012-07-17 03:23 ` Craig Ringer <ringerc@ringerc.id.au>
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From: Craig Ringer @ 2012-07-17 03:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Victor Sterpu <victor@caido.ro>; +Cc: pgsql-sql

On 07/17/2012 03:56 AM, Victor Sterpu wrote:
> If I have a XML like this
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <Errors>
> <Error  code="CLIN102" validFrom="1980-02-23"/>
> <Error  code="CLIN103" validFrom="1980-02-23" validTo="2012-01-01"/>
> </Errors>
>
> can I write a query that will output the columns names and values like this?
>
> code;validFrom;validTo
> ------------------------------
> CLIN102;1980-02-23;
> CLIN103;1980-02-23;2012-01-01

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/functions-xml.html#FUNCTIONS-XML-PROCESSING

You should be able to do it with some xpath expressions. It probably 
won't be fast or pretty. Consider using PL/Python, PL/perl, PL/Java, or 
something like that to do the processing and return the resultset.

--
Craig Ringer

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