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Hi,
My problem is a little unique one. I want the ability to define the structure of the XML document (i.e. the hierarchy of element tags and attribute names) in the database tables. The values of tags and attributes will also be populated at runtime in tables.
Then write some generic API that reads the structure of the XML document through the database tables and spits out an XML document based on this structure and values stored in the tables.
So, basically, I want the tag names and values both to be values in the database rather than the tag names being the columns in database tables.
With this I should be able to have one procedure/function that can serve the purpose of creating XML documents with different structures by just specifying that structure in the form of database tables.
Almost all the Oracle XML utilities I read about, create XML docs based on a SQL query with tag names being columns in the database tables. Any help will be highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Monika

Which database release are you using...
The computed constructors feature of XQuery may help.
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import java.io.IOException;
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