xpath insert unexpected newlines
Hello guys,
It seems that xpath function add unexpected newlines in the xml elements it returns as array:
postgres=> select version();
version
------------------------------------------------------------
PostgreSQL 10.3, compiled by Visual C++ build 1800, 64-bit
(1 row)
postgres=> select ((xpath('/*',xml('<root><a/><b/><c/></root>')))[1])::text;
xpath
---------
<root> +
<a/> +
<b/> +
<c/> +
</root>
(1 row)
A workaround is to have at least one element with a value:
postgres=> select ((xpath('/*',xml('<root><a/><b/><c/>one value</root>')))[1])::text;
xpath
------------------------------------
<root><a/><b/><c/>one value</root>
(1 row)
Best regards.
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"Voillequin, Jean-Marc" <Jean-Marc.Voillequin@moodys.com> writes:
It seems that xpath function add unexpected newlines in the xml elements it returns as array:
postgres=> select ((xpath('/*',xml('<root><a/><b/><c/></root>')))[1])::text;
xpath
---------
<root> +
<a/> +
<b/> +
<c/> +
</root>
(1 row)
A workaround is to have at least one element with a value:
postgres=> select ((xpath('/*',xml('<root><a/><b/><c/>one value</root>')))[1])::text;
xpath
------------------------------------
<root><a/><b/><c/>one value</root>
(1 row)
Wow, that's bizarre. It seems that this behavior is down to xmlNodeDump,
which is what we use to produce xpath's output. I'm not sure why it
chooses to pretty-print one case and not the other, but I'd be inclined
to say that for PG's purposes we don't want any pretty-printing.
I tried this:
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/xml.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/xml.c
index dae7d58..48b8034 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/xml.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/xml.c
@@ -3857,7 +3857,7 @@ xml_xmlnodetoxmltype(xmlNodePtr cur, PgXmlErrorContext *xmlerrcxt)
nodefree = (cur_copy->type == XML_DOCUMENT_NODE) ?
(void (*) (xmlNodePtr)) xmlFreeDoc : xmlFreeNode;- bytes = xmlNodeDump(buf, NULL, cur_copy, 0, 1);
+ bytes = xmlNodeDump(buf, NULL, cur_copy, 0, 0);
if (bytes == -1 || xmlerrcxt->err_occurred)
xml_ereport(xmlerrcxt, ERROR, ERRCODE_OUT_OF_MEMORY,
"could not dump node");and that makes the discrepancy go away (both results are printed without
any added whitespace). There is one change in the regression test
outputs, which is an xpath query that's been affected by this very
same issue:
SELECT xpath('//loc:piece', '<local:data xmlns:local="http://127.0.0.1" xmlns="http://127.0.0.2"><local:piece id="1"><internal>number one</internal><internal2/></local:piece><local:piece id="2" /></local:data>', ARRAY[ARRAY['loc', 'http://127.0.0.1']]);
- xpath
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- {"<local:piece xmlns:local=\"http://127.0.0.1\" xmlns=\"http://127.0.0.2\" id=\"1\">+
- <internal>number one</internal> +
- <internal2/> +
- </local:piece>","<local:piece xmlns:local=\"http://127.0.0.1\" id=\"2\"/>"}
+ xpath
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ {"<local:piece xmlns:local=\"http://127.0.0.1\" xmlns=\"http://127.0.0.2\" id=\"1\"><internal>number one</internal><internal2/></local:piece>","<local:piece xmlns:local=\"http://127.0.0.1\" id=\"2\"/>"}
(1 row)Thoughts?
regards, tom lane
I wrote:
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"Voillequin, Jean-Marc" <Jean-Marc.Voillequin@moodys.com> writes:It seems that xpath function add unexpected newlines in the xml elements it returns as array:
I tried this: - bytes = xmlNodeDump(buf, NULL, cur_copy, 0, 1); + bytes = xmlNodeDump(buf, NULL, cur_copy, 0, 0); and that makes the discrepancy go away (both results are printed without any added whitespace).
Thoughts?
[ crickets ]
Hearing nothing, I propose to change this in HEAD but not back-patch.
It still seems like a bug, but given the lack of previous complaints,
I'm not sure we'd get plaudits for changing this behavior in back
branches.
regards, tom lane