-- -- first, define the functions. Turn off echoing so that expected file -- does not depend on contents of pgxml.sql. -- SET client_min_messages = warning; \set ECHO none RESET client_min_messages; select xslt_process( '<table xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <row> <x>1</x> </row> <row> <x>2</x> </row> <row> <x>3</x> </row> <row> <x>4</x> </row> <row> <x>5</x> </row> </table>'::text, $$<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" /> <xsl:template match="*"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:copy-of select="@*" /> <xsl:apply-templates /> </xsl:copy> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="comment()|processing-instruction()"> <xsl:copy /> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> $$::text); ERROR: xslt_process() is not available without libxslt CREATE TABLE xpath_test (id integer NOT NULL, t text); INSERT INTO xpath_test VALUES (1, '<doc><int>1</int></doc>'); SELECT * FROM xpath_table('id', 't', 'xpath_test', '/doc/int', 'true') as t(id int4); id ---- (0 rows) SELECT * FROM xpath_table('id', 't', 'xpath_test', '/doc/int', 'true') as t(id int4, doc int4); id | doc ----+----- 1 | 1 (1 row) create table articles (article_id integer, article_xml text, date_entered date); insert into articles (article_id, article_xml, date_entered) values (2, '<article><author>test</author><pages>37</pages></article>', now()); SELECT * FROM xpath_table('article_id', 'article_xml', 'articles', '/article/author|/article/pages|/article/title', 'date_entered > ''2003-01-01'' ') AS t(article_id integer, author text, page_count integer, title text); article_id | author | page_count | title ------------+--------+------------+------- 2 | test | 37 | (1 row) -- this used to fail when invoked a second time select xslt_process('<aaa/>',$$<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:template match="@*|node()"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/> </xsl:copy> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>$$); ERROR: xslt_process() is not available without libxslt select xslt_process('<aaa/>',$$<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:template match="@*|node()"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/> </xsl:copy> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>$$); ERROR: xslt_process() is not available without libxslt create table t1 (id integer, xml_data text); insert into t1 (id, xml_data) values (1, '<attributes><attribute name="attr_1">Some Value</attribute></attributes>'); create index idx_xpath on t1 ( xpath_string ('/attributes/attribute[@name="attr_1"]/text()', xml_data));