Re: [GENERAL] xml to table (as oppose to table to xml)

2009-06-07 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
I can test/review the code, if you want. It would be a nice thing to have in postgresql, obviously once you prepare statement enough to convince Tom :) XSLT is a necessity , otherwise it won't be standard, and thus - quite useless. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.

Re: [GENERAL] xml to table (as oppose to table to xml)

2009-06-07 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Monday 01 June 2009 12:53:08 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote: > is there any way currently to convert xml file in format like below, > to a table ? I have some code that does this, but it was written a long time ago and will probably need some polishing. One main problem is how you specify that exa

Re: [GENERAL] xml to table (as oppose to table to xml)

2009-06-01 Thread Scott Bailey
Pavel Stehule wrote: 2009/6/1 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz : That's one of things pg xml type lacks ... :/ yes - SQL/XML isn't completed yet http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/XML_Support :( I believe so some procedure like xml_to_table should be nice. but plperlu code should be simple (as perl code sh

Re: [GENERAL] xml to table (as oppose to table to xml)

2009-06-01 Thread Pavel Stehule
2009/6/1 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz : > That's one of things pg xml type lacks ... :/ yes - SQL/XML isn't completed yet http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/XML_Support :( I believe so some procedure like xml_to_table should be nice. but plperlu code should be simple (as perl code should be :)) and fast

Re: [GENERAL] xml to table (as oppose to table to xml)

2009-06-01 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
That's one of things pg xml type lacks ... :/ I just need that to get some real xml, and convert to table once, so I should be fine with xpath, but ... heh. This is so ugly. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.post

Re: [GENERAL] xml to table (as oppose to table to xml)

2009-06-01 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello you can use simple perl parser an sample is on http://www.postgres.cz/index.php/PL/Perlu_-_Untrusted_Perl#Generov.C3.A1n.C3.AD.2C_zpracov.C3.A1n.C3.AD_XML code is in english and perl, description in czech, sorry regards Pavel Stehule 2009/6/1 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz : > xpath is fine, but no

Re: [GENERAL] xml to table (as oppose to table to xml)

2009-06-01 Thread Sam Mason
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 11:22:14AM +0100, Grzegorz Jaaakiewicz wrote: > xpath is fine, but not when you have 10+ fields to extract ;) I've got a few views pulling 10 to 15 values out of XML files and it works OK, not amazing performance but for what I'm doing it's no problem. Scaling beyond that

Re: [GENERAL] xml to table (as oppose to table to xml)

2009-06-01 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
xpath is fine, but not when you have 10+ fields to extract ;) -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] xml to table (as oppose to table to xml)

2009-06-01 Thread Sam Mason
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 10:53:08AM +0100, Grzegorz Jaaakiewicz wrote: > is there any way currently to convert xml file in format like below, > to a table ? I've had good luck with the xpath support in PG[1] and some variant of the "unnest" function that's in PG 8.4 (various versions[2] have been p