Code to parse the XML stored in a XMLTYPE field in database

Question

Hi All,
Please can someone forward me the code to parse the XML retrieved from the oracle database. I want to parse the whole xml, any node any attribute and store the extracted values in database. For example:
<mail>
<mailing_list name="test1">
<mailing_list_users>
<user email="[email protected]" address="abcd" />
<user email="[email protected]" address="abcdef" />
</mailing_list_users>
</mailing_list>
<mailing_list name="test2">
<mailing_list_users>
<user email="[email protected]" address="abcd1" />
<user email="[email protected]" address="abcdef1" />
</mailing_list_users>
</mailing_list>
</mail>
In this example, i want to loop thru all the mailing lists to extract therir values and under each mailing lists i want to loop thru all the users and their details.
I require this urgently. Any help will be appreciated.

Answer 1

I am not sure if this is the correct way to do it but I found such class from my old codes:
import java.util.*;
* class for parsing strange value of time to "normal" view
public class NumericToTime
     GregorianCalendar gc = null;
     StringTokenizer st = null;
     int days, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds;
     float fract;
     public NumericToTime(String str)
          try
               gc = new GregorianCalendar(1900,0,0);
               st = new StringTokenizer(str, ".");
               days = Integer.parseInt(st.nextToken());
               Float f = new Float("0." + st.nextToken());
               fract = f.floatValue();
          catch(NoSuchElementException e)
               fract = 0.0f;
     * method which calculate time
     public void calculateTime()
          float h, m, s;
          gc.add(GregorianCalendar.DATE, days-1);//days-1 MS'i fenomeenil baseeruv "patch"
          h = (float)(24.0*fract); hours = (int)h;
          gc.set(GregorianCalendar.HOUR, hours);
          m = (float)(60.0*(h - (float)hours)); minutes = (int)m;
          gc.set(GregorianCalendar.MINUTE, minutes);
          s = (float)(60.0*(m - (float)minutes)); seconds = (int)s;
          gc.set(GregorianCalendar.SECOND, seconds);
          milliseconds = (int)(1000.0*(s - (float)seconds));
          gc.set(GregorianCalendar.MILLISECOND, milliseconds);
     * method which return time value as Date object
     public Date getTime() {
          return gc.getTime();
Hope this is some help for You!