PL/SQL ability to access text within an XML document in the database : XMLType « XML « Oracle PL / SQL






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  3. XMLType

PL/SQL ability to access text within an XML document in the database

  
SQL> CREATE TABLE myTable
  2  (id  NUMBER PRIMARY KEY
  3  ,doc XMLType NOT NULL)
  4  XMLTYPE doc STORE AS CLOB
  5  /

Table created.

SQL>
SQL>
SQL> 
SQL> DECLARE
  2      v_doc  XMLType;
  3      v_text varchar2(100);
  4  BEGIN
  5      select doc into v_doc from myTable
  6      where id = 2;
  7
  8      v_text := v_doc.extract('/message/body/text()' ).getstringval;
  9
 10      dbms_output.put_line(v_text);
 11  END;
 12  /

SQL>
SQL> drop table myTable;

Table dropped.

SQL>








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