Using XMLNAMESPACES with XMLEMENT

Hi All,

I am attempting to port the following statement from DB2z to Postgres:

SELECT e.empno, e.firstnme, e.lastname,

          XMLELEMENT ( NAME "foo:Emp",

            XMLNAMESPACES('http://www.foo.com' AS "foo"),

            XMLATTRIBUTES(e.empno as "serial"),

                          e.firstnme,

                          e.lastname ) AS "Result"

       FROM EMP e

       WHERE e.edlevel = 12;

The NAMESPACES function is not supported by Postgres in the XMLELEMENT function. Is there any way to get this to work? I’ve looked at the WITH syntax but it doesn’t look like that will be helpful here.

Regards,

Garfield