Database only likes one flavour of DateTime format

Question

Hi Folks.
Making great progress with my XML loading thanks to support on the forum and also examining other posts.
My current issue is this. I am loading XML into an XMLTYPE column. This column resides in a table which was associated with a registred XML schema.
All of the documents I am trying to load claim to be compliant with the registered schema.
Where the header contains a "creationTimestamp" element in this format the system loads the XML with no problem
<DocumentHeader creationTimestamp="2009-02-04T14:18:58">If, however, the timestamp looks like this..
<DocumentHeader creationTimestamp="2009-05-05T14:55:18+02:00">or this
<DocumentHeader creationTimestamp="2009-04-22T14:52:52.61Z">or this
<DocumentHeader creationTimestamp="2008-07-01T04:04:00Z">I get the following error...
ORA-30992: error occurred at Xpath /IndividualAnnex/DocumentHeader[@creationTimestamp] ORA-01830: date format picture ends before converting entire input stringAssuming the XML documents DO confirm to the schema but they simply have slightly different date time formats, is there a way I could load them into my table?
Any suggestions appreciated.
Kind regards
Simon Gadd

Answer 1

Hi Mark
Desc statement
SQL> desc raex_document_3_0;
Name                                      Null?    Type
RAEX_DOCUMENT_ID                     NUMBER(13)
INDIVIDUAL_ANNEX                       SYS.XMLTYPE(XMLSchema "tadig-raex-aa14-3.0.xsd" Element"IndividualAnnex")
                                                    STORAGE Object-relational
                                                    TYPE "IndividualAnnex1776_T"
UPLOAD_CONTACT_ID                                  NUMBER(13)
FILENAME                                           VARCHAR2(100)
DOCUMENT                                           BLOB
MIMETYPE                                           VARCHAR2(100)
LAST_UPDATE_DATE                                   DATEAs for "Does the XML Schema contain recursive structures" I think it does
Schema registration was with GENTABLES=FALSE
If I register the schema with GENTABLES = TRUE I end up with a shed load of tables in my schema that don't seem to get populated anyway. Is this a catch 22? If I want to load the data I need GENTABLES = TRUE? IN which case would I be better off creating a seperate schema for the XML tables to reside in?
Many thanks
Simon