ced45 <cedric.duprez@ifn.fr> wrote:
> I have trouble using XPath name() function in a XML field.
> For example, when I execute the following query :
> SELECT XPATH('name(/*)', XMLPARSE(DOCUMENT '<unit>value</unit>'))
> I would like to get "unit", but I just get an empty array ({}).
> How can I get "unit" ?
AFAIK, this is not related to PostgreSQL, but inherent to
XPath in that it returns elements from the document that
fulfill the XPath expression *unchanged*.
So you will probably have to tackle your problem from an-
other angle.
Tim