Re: Selecting data from XML

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.

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Craig Ringer