xpath_number function

Applies to: Databricks SQL Databricks Runtime

Returns a DOUBLE value from an XML document.

Syntax

xpath_number(xml, xpath)

Arguments

• xml: A STRING expression of XML.

• xpath: A STRING expression that is a well formed XPath.

Returns

A DOUBLE.

The result is zero if no match is found, or NaN if a match is found but the value is non-numeric.

The function raises an error if xml or xpath are malformed.

Examples

> SELECT xpath_number('<a><b>1</b><b>2</b></a>', 'sum(a/b)');
 3.0

Related functions

• xpath function

• xpath_boolean function

• xpath_float function

• xpath_int function

• xpath_long function

• xpath_double function

• xpath_short function

• xpath_string function