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XPATH & XQUERY

Functions Index

XMLType.existsNode

Tests node existence having evaluated given XPATH expression.
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
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 id="14a" water="0.413"/><oil-rig 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.

See Also

XMLType.extract()