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XMLQUERY

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

The XMLQUERY() function allows for extracting content from an XML document using XQuery or XPath

SELECT xmlquery('/doc/x'
  PASSING xmlparse(DOCUMENT '<doc><x>content</x></doc>')
  RETURNING CONTENT
)
FROM dual
create.select(xmlquery("/doc/x")
        .passing(
            XML.xml("<doc><x>content</x></doc>")
        ))
      .fetch();

The result would look like this:

+----------+
| xmlquery |
+----------+
| content  |
+----------+

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

xmlquery("/doc/x").passing(xml("<doc><x>content</x></doc>"))

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

DB2, Teradata

xmlquery(
  '/doc/x'
  PASSING '<doc><x>content</x></doc>'
)

Oracle

xmlquery(
  '/doc/x'
  PASSING '<doc><x>content</x></doc>'
  RETURNING CONTENT
)

Postgres

(SELECT xmlagg(x)
FROM UNNEST(xpath('/doc/x', CAST('<doc><x>content</x></doc>' AS xml))) t (x))

SQLServer

'<doc><x>content</x></doc>'.QUERY('/doc/x')

ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, BigQuery, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLite, Snowflake, Sybase, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB

/* UNSUPPORTED */
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