Re: More clearly on XML namespaces inside xpath function

Thanks, applied.

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Nikolay Samokhvalov wrote:
> Explain how to deal with XML namespaces inside the "xpath" function
> (especially about "default" namespaces, what is really unclear at first
> glance).
> 
> 
> Index: func.sgml
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v
> retrieving revision 1.516
> diff -u -r1.516 func.sgml
> --- func.sgml 3 Jun 2010 14:40:42 -0000 1.516
> +++ func.sgml 4 Jun 2010 09:48:44 -0000
> @@ -8596,8 +8596,11 @@
>      mappings.  This array should be a two-dimensional array with the
>      length of the second axis being equal to 2 (i.e., it should be an
>      array of arrays, each of which consists of exactly 2 elements).
> -    The first element of each array entry is the namespace name, the
> -    second the namespace URI.
> +    The first element of each array entry is the namespace name (alias),
> the
> +    second the namespace URI. It is not required that aliases provided in
> +    this array are the same that those being used in the XML document
> itself (in
> +    other words, both in the XML document and in the
> xpath
> +    function context, aliases are local</>).
>     
> 
>     
> @@ -8612,6 +8615,19 @@
>  (1 row)
>  ]]>
>     
> +
> +   
> +    How to deal with default (anonymous) namespaces:
> +
> +   
>    
> 
>    

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