Name
XMLType.existsNode — Tests node existence having evaluated given XPATH expression.
Synopsis
XMLType.existsNode ( |
in xpath_expn varchar , |
in namespace_map varchar
); |
Description
The member function calculates the given XPATH expression
xpath_expn using the XML
entity of the instance as a context node. If a namespace_map parameter is given then
the function adds namespace declarations from this parameter into
the beginning of xpath_expn
before the evaluation. The function returns 1 if the first result
of XPATH evaluation is a node or 0 if there are no results or if
the first result is not a node.
Parameters
xpath_expn
A text of XPATH expression to evaluate.
namespace_map
A string that is a list of namespace prefix declarations
delimited by whitespace characters. If the xpath_expn expression also contains a
list of declarations then these two lists are concatenated.
Return Types
The function returns integer 1 or 0
Examples
Example24.547.A table with an XMLType column
This populates a table with XML data and then reports which rows contain 'empno' element inside 'emp'.
create table TEST_XMLS (I integer primary key, XMLVAL XMLType);
insert into TEST_XMLS values (1, XMLType('<emp><empno>221</empno><ename>John</ename></emp>'));
insert into TEST_XMLS values (2, XMLType('<po><pono>331</pono><poname>PO_1</poname></po>'));
insert into TEST_XMLS values (3, XMLType('<oil-rig
xml:id="14a" water="0.413"/><oil-rig
xml:id="14b" water="0.402"/>'));
select e.I, e.XMLVAL.existsNode('/emp/empno')
from TEST_XMLS as e
I callret
INTEGER NOT NULL INTEGER
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1 1
2 0
3 0
3 Rows. -- 00000 msec.