How to insert single colon xml text in the xml table

Question

Dear Sir,
how to insert special characters like single colon text example (don't) xml text in to the xml table
please see the following example its giving me error quoted string is not ended properly
SQL> insert into ftr_ctl values (1,
2 xmltype('<po:root xmlns:po="http://www.oracle.com/FC.xsd"
3 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
4 xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.oracle.com/FC.xsd
5 http://www.oracle.com/FC.xsd">
6 <row>
7 <UniqueIdentifier>urn:x-gcs:def:featureType:GFDD::FT_DFDD_100565</UniqueIdentifier>
8 <AlphaCode>ZB032</AlphaCode>
9 <Name>Baseline Point</Name>
10 <Status>Submitted</Status>
11 <Definition>A location that serves as a point on, and which partially defines a segment
of, a national boundary baseline.</Definition>
12 <Description>May be monumented or unmonumented. A national boundary baseline is used fo
r defining the landward edge or margin of a nation's various contiguous zones such as the 3 and 12 n
autical mile limits and the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).</Description>
13 </row>
14 </po:root>'));
ERROR:
ORA-01756: quoted string not properly terminated
how to solve single quotation like (nation's) in xml data insertion
please give me reply as soon as possible
Thanks
Kabeer

Answer 1

Hi,
Use &#x7B;code} tags to post formatted code on the forum.
That way, your code will be more readable for everyone, and more importantly here, everyone will be able to clearly see what's bothering you :
&apos;sThe single quote was encoded with the character entity reference "&amp;apos;".
The conversion is not mandatory but it happens Oracle is doing it in this case.
It shouldn't be a problem though.
If you want to extract the value afterwards, it'll come as expected :
SQL> create table ftr_ctl (id number, doc xmltype);
Table created
SQL> insert into ftr_ctl values (1,
  2  xmltype('<po:root xmlns:po="http://www.oracle.com/FC.xsd"
  3  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  4  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.oracle.com/FC.xsd
  5  http://www.oracle.com/FC.xsd">
  6  <row>
  7  <UniqueIdentifier>urn:x-gcs:def:featureType:GFDD::FT_DFDD_100565</UniqueIdentifier>
  8  <AlphaCode>ZB032</AlphaCode>
  9  <Name>Baseline Point</Name>
10  <Status>Submitted</Status>
11  <Definition>A location that serves as a point on, and which partially defines a segment of, a national boundary baseline.</Definition>
12  <Description>May be monumented or unmonumented. A national boundary baseline is used for defining the landward edge or margin of a nation''s various contiguous zones such as the 3 and 12 nautical mile limits and the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).</Description>
13  <Alias xsi:nil="true"></Alias>
14  <SourceItemIdentifier>100565</SourceItemIdentifier>
15  <SourceReference>DGIWG DFDD BL 2011-1.00</SourceReference>
16  <SourceURL>https://www.dgiwg.org/FAD/fdd/view?i=100565</SourceURL>
17  </row>
18  </po:root>'));
1 row inserted
SQL> select extractvalue(doc, '/po:root/row/Description','xmlns:po="http://www.oracle.com/FC.xsd"')
  2  from ftr_ctl
  3  where id = 1
  4  ;
EXTRACTVALUE(DOC,'/PO:ROOT/ROW/DESCRIPTION','XMLNS:PO="HTTP://WWW.ORACLE.COM/FC.
May be monumented or unmonumented. A national boundary baseline is used for defi
ning the landward edge or margin of a nation's various contiguous zones such as
the 3 and 12 nautical mile limits and the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
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