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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index fd28615ae0e..659da49a849 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.520 2010/06/29 22:29:13 momjian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.521 2010/07/03 17:21:48 momjian Exp $ -->
<chapter id="functions">
<title>Functions and Operators</title>
@@ -8610,8 +8610,11 @@ SELECT xmlagg(x) FROM (SELECT * FROM test ORDER BY y DESC) AS tab;
mappings. This array should be a two-dimensional array with the
length of the second axis being equal to 2 (i.e., it should be an
array of arrays, each of which consists of exactly 2 elements).
- The first element of each array entry is the namespace name, the
- second the namespace URI.
+ The first element of each array entry is the namespace name (alias), the
+ second the namespace URI. It is not required that aliases provided in
+ this array are the same that those being used in the XML document itself (in
+ other words, both in the XML document and in the <function>xpath</function>
+ function context, aliases are <emphasis>local</>).
</para>
<para>
@@ -8626,6 +8629,19 @@ SELECT xpath('/my:a/text()', '<my:a xmlns:my="http://example.com">test</my:a>',
(1 row)
]]></screen>
</para>
+
+ <para>
+ How to deal with default (anonymous) namespaces:
+<screen><![CDATA[
+SELECT xpath('//mydefns:b/text()', '<a xmlns="http://example.com"><b>test</b></a>',
+ ARRAY[ARRAY['mydefns', 'http://example.com']]);
+
+ xpath
+--------
+ {test}
+(1 row)
+]]></screen>
+ </para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="functions-xml-mapping">