Re: xpath processing brain dead

sigh.. I got curious. :P

On Feb 27, 2009, at 7:19 PM, James Pye wrote:
> Well, that or force the user to call it explicitly.


Attached is the patch that I used to get the results below..
This is just a proof of concept, so it's quite lacking. Notably, it
doesn't even try to identify well-formed documents.


Purpose/idea being, give the user access to the poorly-formed document
as a node-set via the "fragment" function instead of mangling the
xpath and xml:


postgres=# SELECT xpath('fragment()//*', 'bleh<foo/><bar/>'::xml);
  xpath
-------
  {}
(1 row)

postgres=# SELECT xpath('fragment()//*', 'bleh<meh><sub/></meh><foo/
 ><bar/>'::xml);
   xpath
----------
  {<sub/>}
(1 row)

postgres=# SELECT xpath('fragment()/*', 'bleh<meh><sub/></meh><foo/
 ><bar/>'::xml);
   xpath
----------
  {<sub/>}
(1 row)

postgres=# SELECT xpath('fragment()', 'bleh<meh><sub/></meh><foo/><bar/
 >'::xml);
          xpath
------------------------
  {bleh,"<meh>
    <sub/>
  </meh>",<foo/>,<bar/>}
(1 row)

postgres=# SELECT xpath('/*', 'bleh<meh><sub/></meh><foo/><bar/>'::xml);
  xpath
-------
  {}
(1 row)

postgres=# SELECT xpath('fragment()[local-name()="foo"]/@att',
  'bleh<meh><sub/></meh><foo att="sometin"/><bar/>'::xml);
    xpath
-----------
  {sometin}
(1 row)

postgres=# SELECT xpath('fragment()[local-name()="meh"]/*',
'bleh<meh><sub/></meh><foo att="sometin"/><bar/>'::xml);
   xpath
----------
  {<sub/>}
(1 row)

postgres=# SELECT xpath('fragment()[local-name()="meh" or local-
name()="bar"]', 'bleh<meh><sub/></meh><foo att="sometin"/><bar/>'::xml);
       xpath
-----------------
  {"<meh>
    <sub/>
  </meh>",<bar/>}
(1 row)

postgres=# SELECT xpath('fragment()[local-name()="bar"]',
'bleh<meh><sub/></meh><foo att="sometin"/><bar/>'::xml);
   xpath
----------
  {<bar/>}
(1 row)

postgres=# SELECT xpath('fragment()[@*]',
'bleh<meh><sub/></meh>othertext<foo att="sometin"/><bar/>'::xml);
            xpath
----------------------------
  {"<foo att=\"sometin\"/>"}
(1 row)


Can't say that I've ever been thrilled with using node-sets, but
*shrug*.

I'm sleepy now..