Fix namespace handling in xpath function

petere · petere · commit cebb3f032079 · 2015-01-17T22:37:32.000-05:00
Previously, the xml value resulting from an xpath query would not have
namespace declarations if the namespace declarations were attached to
an ancestor element in the input xml value.  That means the output value
was not correct XML.  Fix that by running the result value through
xmlCopyNode(), which produces the correct namespace declarations.

Author: Ali Akbar &lt;the.apaan@gmail.com&gt;
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/xml.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/xml.c
@@ -3286,19 +3286,34 @@ xml_xmlnodetoxmltype(xmlNodePtr cur)
 	if (cur->type == XML_ELEMENT_NODE)
 	{
 		xmlBufferPtr buf;
+		xmlNodePtr	cur_copy;
 
 		buf = xmlBufferCreate();
+
+		/*
+		 * The result of xmlNodeDump() won't contain namespace definitions
+		 * from parent nodes, but xmlCopyNode() duplicates a node along with
+		 * its required namespace definitions.
+		 */
+		cur_copy = xmlCopyNode(cur, 1);
+
+		if (cur_copy == NULL)
+			xml_ereport(ERROR, ERRCODE_OUT_OF_MEMORY,
+						"could not copy node");
+
 		PG_TRY();
 		{
-			xmlNodeDump(buf, NULL, cur, 0, 1);
+			xmlNodeDump(buf, NULL, cur_copy, 0, 1);
 			result = xmlBuffer_to_xmltype(buf);
 		}
 		PG_CATCH();
 		{
+			xmlFreeNode(cur_copy);
 			xmlBufferFree(buf);
 			PG_RE_THROW();
 		}
 		PG_END_TRY();
+		xmlFreeNode(cur_copy);
 		xmlBufferFree(buf);
 	}
 	else
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/xml.out b/src/test/regress/expected/xml.out
@@ -496,6 +496,21 @@ SELECT xpath('//loc:piece/@id', '<local:data xmlns:local="http://127.0.0.1"><loc
  {1,2}
 (1 row)
 
+SELECT xpath('//loc:piece', '<local:data xmlns:local="http://127.0.0.1"><local:piece id="1">number one</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\" id=\"1\">number one</local:piece>","<local:piece xmlns:local=\"http://127.0.0.1\" id=\"2\"/>"}
+(1 row)
+
+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\"/>"}
+(1 row)
+
 SELECT xpath('//b', '<a>one <b>two</b> three <b>etc</b></a>');
           xpath          
 -------------------------
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/xml_1.out b/src/test/regress/expected/xml_1.out
@@ -450,6 +450,18 @@ LINE 1: SELECT xpath('//loc:piece/@id', '<local:data xmlns:local="ht...
                                         ^
 DETAIL:  This functionality requires the server to be built with libxml support.
 HINT:  You need to rebuild PostgreSQL using --with-libxml.
+SELECT xpath('//loc:piece', '<local:data xmlns:local="http://127.0.0.1"><local:piece id="1">number one</local:piece><local:piece id="2" /></local:data>', ARRAY[ARRAY['loc', 'http://127.0.0.1']]);
+ERROR:  unsupported XML feature
+LINE 1: SELECT xpath('//loc:piece', '<local:data xmlns:local="http:/...
+                                    ^
+DETAIL:  This functionality requires the server to be built with libxml support.
+HINT:  You need to rebuild PostgreSQL using --with-libxml.
+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']]);
+ERROR:  unsupported XML feature
+LINE 1: SELECT xpath('//loc:piece', '<local:data xmlns:local="http:/...
+                                    ^
+DETAIL:  This functionality requires the server to be built with libxml support.
+HINT:  You need to rebuild PostgreSQL using --with-libxml.
 SELECT xpath('//b', '<a>one <b>two</b> three <b>etc</b></a>');
 ERROR:  unsupported XML feature
 LINE 1: SELECT xpath('//b', '<a>one <b>two</b> three <b>etc</b></a>'...
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/xml.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/xml.sql
@@ -162,6 +162,8 @@ SELECT xpath(NULL, NULL) IS NULL FROM xmltest;
 SELECT xpath('', '<!-- error -->');
 SELECT xpath('//text()', '<local:data xmlns:local="http://127.0.0.1"><local:piece id="1">number one</local:piece><local:piece id="2" /></local:data>');
 SELECT xpath('//loc:piece/@id', '<local:data xmlns:local="http://127.0.0.1"><local:piece id="1">number one</local:piece><local:piece id="2" /></local:data>', ARRAY[ARRAY['loc', 'http://127.0.0.1']]);
+SELECT xpath('//loc:piece', '<local:data xmlns:local="http://127.0.0.1"><local:piece id="1">number one</local:piece><local:piece id="2" /></local:data>', ARRAY[ARRAY['loc', 'http://127.0.0.1']]);
+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']]);
 SELECT xpath('//b', '<a>one <b>two</b> three <b>etc</b></a>');
 
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