Best practice to process inbound soapenc:Array

Hi, I'm working my way through a real world example where I've sent a keyword search query to Amazon and it return 10 results. This works great. Now I want to loop thru the Array and put the returned values into a table in the database. I can't seen to get down to the element level via XQuery to assign the returned values to my local variables. The XML returned is defined in the wdsl as:
     <xsd:complexType name="DetailsArray">
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<xsd:attribute ref="soapenc:arrayType" wsdl:arrayType="typens:Details[]"/>
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Thanks...Matt

Hello again!
Thanks for quick reply!
The instance state says : closed.completed.
Perhaps the problem is not the insert into db, but the transformation activity?
This is what the audit trail (raw xml) looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <audit-trail>
- <event sid="0" cat="2" type="2" n="0" date="2008-06-24T10:16:21.875+02:00">
- <message>
- <![CDATA[ New instance of BPEL process "BPELProcess3" initiated (# "150001").
]]>
</message>
</event>
- <event sid="BpPrc0.1" cat="1" type="2" label="process" n="1" date="2008-06-24T10:16:21.875+02:00" psid="0">
- <message>
- <![CDATA[ _cr_
]]>
</message>
</event>
- <event sid="BpTry0.2" cat="1" type="2" n="2" date="2008-06-24T10:16:21.890+02:00" psid="BpPrc0.1">
- <message>
- <![CDATA[ _cr_
]]>
</message>
</event>
- <event sid="BpSeq0.3" cat="1" type="2" label="sequence" n="3" date="2008-06-24T10:16:21.890+02:00" psid="BpTry0.2">
- <message>
- <![CDATA[ _cr_
]]>
</message>
</event>
- <event sid="BpSeq0.3" cat="2" type="2" wikey="150001-BpRcv0-BpSeq0.3-1" n="4" date="2008-06-24T10:16:21.921+02:00">
- <message>
- <![CDATA[ Received "inputVariable" call from partner "client"
]]>
</message>
- <details>
- <![CDATA[
<inputVariable><part xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" name="payload"><ns1:BPELProcess3ProcessRequest xmlns:ns1="http://xmlns.oracle.com/BPELProcess3">
            <ns1:stations>18700</ns1:stations>
            <ns1:username/>
        </ns1:BPELProcess3ProcessRequest>
</part></inputVariable>
]]>
</details>
</event>
- <event to="GetStationProperties_getStationsProperties_InputVariable" sid="BpSeq0.3" cat="2" type="1" wikey="150001-BpAss0-BpSeq0.3-2" n="5" date="2008-06-24T10:16:21.953+02:00">
- <message>
- <![CDATA[ Updated variable "GetStationProperties_getStationsProperties_InputVariable"
]]>
</message>
- <details>
- <![CDATA[
<GetStationProperties_getStationsProperties_InputVariable><part xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" name="stations"><stations>18700</stations>
</part><part xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" name="username"><username xmlns="" xmlns:def="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xsi:type="def:string" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"/>
</part></GetStationProperties_getStationsProperties_InputVariable>
]]>
</details>
</event>
- <event to="GetStationProperties_getStationsProperties_InputVariable" sid="BpSeq0.3" cat="2" type="1" wikey="150001-BpAss0-BpSeq0.3-2" n="6" date="2008-06-24T10:16:21.953+02:00">
- <message>
- <![CDATA[ Updated variable "GetStationProperties_getStationsProperties_InputVariable"
]]>
</message>
- <details>
- <![CDATA[
<GetStationProperties_getStationsProperties_InputVariable><part xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" name="stations"><stations>18700</stations>
</part><part xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" name="username"><username/>
</part></GetStationProperties_getStationsProperties_InputVariable>
]]>
</details>
</event>
- <event sid="BpSeq0.3" cat="2" type="2" wikey="150001-BpInv0-BpSeq0.3-3" partnerWSDL="MetDataService2Ref.wsdl" n="7" date="2008-06-24T10:16:22.968+02:00">
- <message>
- <![CDATA[ Invoked 2-way operation "getStationsProperties" on partner "MetDataService".
]]>
</message>
- <details>
- <![CDATA[
<messages><GetStationProperties_getStationsProperties_InputVariable><part xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" name="stations"><stations>18700</stations>
</part><part xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" name="username"><username/>
</part></GetStationProperties_getStationsProperties_InputVariable><GetStationProperties_getStationsProperties_OutputVariable><part xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" name="return"><return xmlns:ns2="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xsi:type="ns2:Array" xmlns:ns3="http://no.met.metdata/IMetDataService.xsd" ns2:arrayType="ns3:no_met_metdata_StationProperties[1]" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<item xsi:type="ns3:no_met_metdata_StationProperties">
<toDay xsi:type="xsd:int">0</toDay>
<toMonth xsi:type="xsd:int">0</toMonth>
<fromYear xsi:type="xsd:int">1937</fromYear>
<municipalityNo xsi:type="xsd:int">301</municipalityNo>
<amsl xsi:type="xsd:int">94</amsl>
<latDec xsi:type="xsd:double">59.9427</latDec>
<lonDec xsi:type="xsd:double">10.7207</lonDec>
<toYear xsi:type="xsd:int">0</toYear>
<department xsi:type="xsd:string">OSLO</department>
<fromMonth xsi:type="xsd:int">2</fromMonth>
<stnr xsi:type="xsd:int">18700</stnr>
<wmoNo xsi:type="xsd:int">492</wmoNo>
<latLonFmt xsi:type="xsd:string">decimal_degrees</latLonFmt>
<name xsi:type="xsd:string">OSLO - BLINDERN</name>
<fromDay xsi:type="xsd:int">25</fromDay>
</item>
</return>
</part></GetStationProperties_getStationsProperties_OutputVariable></messages>
]]>
</details>
</event>
- <event to="StoreStationProperties_insert_InputVariable" sid="BpSeq0.3" cat="2" type="1" wikey="150001-BpAss1-BpSeq0.3-4" n="8" date="2008-06-24T10:16:23.000+02:00">
- <message>
- <![CDATA[ Updated variable "StoreStationProperties_insert_InputVariable"
]]>
</message>
- <details>
- <![CDATA[
<StoreStationProperties_insert_InputVariable><part xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" name="EklimaStationsTblCollection"><EklimaStationsTblCollection xmlns:ns0="http://xmlns.oracle.com/pcbpel/adapter/db/top/db" xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/pcbpel/adapter/db/top/db"/>
</part></StoreStationProperties_insert_InputVariable>
]]>
</details>
</event>
- <event sid="BpSeq0.3" cat="2" type="2" wikey="150001-BpInv1-BpSeq0.3-5" partnerWSDL="db.wsdl" n="9" date="2008-06-24T10:16:27.312+02:00">
- <message>
- <![CDATA[ Invoked 1-way operation "insert" on partner "db".
]]>
</message>
- <details>
- <![CDATA[
<StoreStationProperties_insert_InputVariable><part xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" name="EklimaStationsTblCollection"><EklimaStationsTblCollection xmlns:ns0="http://xmlns.oracle.com/pcbpel/adapter/db/top/db" xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/pcbpel/adapter/db/top/db"/>
</part></StoreStationProperties_insert_InputVariable>
]]>
</details>
</event>
- <event sid="BpSeq0.3" cat="2" type="2" wikey="150001-BpRpl0-BpSeq0.3-6" n="10" date="2008-06-24T10:16:27.312+02:00">
- <message>
- <![CDATA[ Reply to partner "client".
]]>
</message>
- <details>
- <![CDATA[
<outputVariable><part xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" name="payload"><BPELProcess3ProcessResponse xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/BPELProcess3"/>
</part></outputVariable>
]]>
</details>
</event>
- <event sid="BpSeq0.3" cat="1" type="2" n="11" date="2008-06-24T10:16:27.312+02:00">
- <message>
- <![CDATA[ _cl_
]]>
</message>
</event>
- <event sid="BpPrc0.1" cat="1" type="2" n="12" date="2008-06-24T10:16:27.312+02:00">
- <message>
- <![CDATA[ _cl_
]]>
</message>
</event>
- <event sid="BpPrc0.1" cat="2" type="2" n="13" date="2008-06-24T10:16:27.328+02:00">
- <message>
- <![CDATA[ BPEL process instance "150001" completed
]]>
</message>
</event>
</audit-trail>
The webservice-method I'm calling in this case is getStationsProperties.
Kind regards
Jørn Eirik

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