XML with attributes?

Hello
I've got a table XYZ with the fields ABC and DEF. I want Oracle XE database to give me the following XML back:
<ROWSET>
<ROW ABC="..." DEF="..."/>
<ROW ABC="..." DEF="..."/>
</ROWSET>
the fields as attributes. I know only how to get XML with elements but I need xml attributes. Does anybody know how this works with ODP.NET? I use the XmlCommandType property, r=ExecuteXmlReader() function and "doc.load(r)". In the past I got XML with attributes using Oracle9i R2, OO4O and MS Visual Basic 6. I set a property for each column.
Regards
Marcus Warm
(Germany)
[Oracle 10g Express Edition R2, Visual Studio 2005 VB, ADO.NET 2.0, Windows
XP]
<<also posted in de.comp.datenbanken.misc>>

Hi
In this case you have to change your Source structure and map the attrbute values to target and in receiver channel you can perform your content conversion.
Regards
Ramg
Edited by: Ramkumar Ganesh on Apr 28, 2010 11:09 PM

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: Bye Heiko.
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which cause troubles. But also in this column there are
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BR,
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}Maybe you get an idea what to change in your code.
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I am facing problem while creating xml with cdata section in it. I am using Oracle 10.1.0.4.0 I am writing a stored procedure which accepts a set of input parameters and creates a xml document from them. The code snippet is as follows:
select xmlelement("DOCUMENTS",
xmlagg
(xmlelement
("DOCUMENT",
xmlforest
(m.document_name_txt as "DOCUMENT_NAME_TXT",
m.document_type_cd as "DOCUMENT_TYPE_CD",
'<![cdata[' || m.document_clob_data || ']]>' as "DOCUMENT_CLOB_DATA"
) from table(cast(msg_clob_data_arr as DOCUMENT_CLOB_TBL))m;
msg_clob_data_arr is an input parameter to procedure and DOCUMENT_CLOB_TBL is a pl/sql table of an object containing 3 attributes: first 2 being varchar2 and the 3rd one as CLOB. The xml document this query is generating is as follows:
<DOCUMENTS>
<DOCUMENT>
<DOCUMENT_NAME_TXT>TestName</DOCUMENT_NAME_TXT>
<DOCUMENT_TYPE_CD>BLOB</DOCUMENT_TYPE_CD>
<DOCUMENT_CLOB_DATA>
<![cdata[123456789012345678901234567890123456789012]]>
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SQL> create or replace function XMLCDATA_10103 (elementName varchar2,
2                                             cdataValue varchar2)
3 return xmltype deterministic
4 as
5 begin
6     return xmltype('<' || elementName || '><![CDATA[' || cdataValue || ']]>
7 end;
8 /
Function created.
SQL> select xmlelement
2         (
3            "Row",
4            xmlcdata_10103('Junk','&<>!%$#&%*&$'),
5            xmlcdata_10103('Name',ENAME),
6            xmlelement("EMPID", EMPNO)
7         ).extract('/*')
8* from emp
SQL> /
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<Junk><![CDATA[&<>!%$#&%*&$]]></Junk>
<Name><![CDATA[SMITH]]></Name>
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</Row>
<Row>
<Junk><![CDATA[&<>!%$#&%*&$]]></Junk>
<Name><![CDATA[ALLEN]]></Name>
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<Row>
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<Name><![CDATA[JONES]]></Name>
<EMPID>7566</EMPID>
</Row>
<Row>
<Junk><![CDATA[&<>!%$#&%*&$]]></Junk>
<Name><![CDATA[MARTIN]]></Name>
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</Row>
<Row>
<Junk><![CDATA[&<>!%$#&%*&$]]></Junk>
<Name><![CDATA[BLAKE]]></Name>
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<Row>
<Junk><![CDATA[&<>!%$#&%*&$]]></Junk>
<Name><![CDATA[CLARK]]></Name>
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</Row>
<Row>
<Junk><![CDATA[&<>!%$#&%*&$]]></Junk>
<Name><![CDATA[SCOTT]]></Name>
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</Row>
<Row>
<Junk><![CDATA[&<>!%$#&%*&$]]></Junk>
<Name><![CDATA[KING]]></Name>
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</Row>
<Row>
<Junk><![CDATA[&<>!%$#&%*&$]]></Junk>
<Name><![CDATA[TURNER]]></Name>
<EMPID>7844</EMPID>
</Row>
<Row>
<Junk><![CDATA[&<>!%$#&%*&$]]></Junk>
<Name><![CDATA[ADAMS]]></Name>
<EMPID>7876</EMPID>
</Row>
<Row>
<Junk><![CDATA[&<>!%$#&%*&$]]></Junk>
<Name><![CDATA[JAMES]]></Name>
<EMPID>7900</EMPID>
</Row>
<Row>
<Junk><![CDATA[&<>!%$#&%*&$]]></Junk>
<Name><![CDATA[FORD]]></Name>
<EMPID>7902</EMPID>
</Row>
<Row>
<Junk><![CDATA[&<>!%$#&%*&$]]></Junk>
<Name><![CDATA[MILLER]]></Name>
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</Row>
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