Re: [GENERAL] scary xpath_table behaviour

2011-04-04 Thread Rob Sargent
On 04/04/2011 03:12 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Rob Sargent writes: When using pipe separated xpath statements to fill multiple columns of output, there is no guarantee of correlation among the columns of the rows returned. Yeah, this is a known problem mentioned in our TODO list. Nobody has any

Re: [GENERAL] scary xpath_table behaviour

2011-04-04 Thread Tom Lane
Rob Sargent writes: > When using pipe separated xpath statements to fill multiple columns of > output, there is no guarantee of correlation among the columns of the > rows returned. Yeah, this is a known problem mentioned in our TODO list. Nobody has any idea how to persuade libxml to do that

[GENERAL] scary xpath_table behaviour

2011-04-04 Thread Rob Sargent
When using pipe separated xpath statements to fill multiple columns of output, there is no guarantee of correlation among the columns of the rows returned. Using locally built 9.0.3 (--with-libxml) I'm dealing with an element which has one fixed attribute (@page-layout) and either (@collecti