> I am thinking so I can fix some issues related to XMLTABLE. Please, send me > more examples and test cases.
Please see Markus Winand's patch that I referenced upthread.
here is a fix of some XMLTABLE mentioned issues.
this update allows cast boolean to numeric types from XPath expressions
Attached patch solves some cast issues mentioned by Chap. It solves issue reported by Markus. I didn't use Markus's code, but it was inspiration for me. I found native solution from libxml2.