Heed help in Xpath query??

Hello,
It is an interesting forum. Here is my situation. I have the following XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<DepartmentList>
     <Department>
          <DeptNo>10</DeptNo>
          <DeptName>ACCOUNTING</DeptName>
          <Location>NEW YORK</Location>
          <Employee>
               <EmployeeId>7782</EmployeeId>
               <Name>CLARK</Name>
               <Job>MANAGER</Job>
               <Manager>7839</Manager>
               <Hiredate>09-JUN-81</Hiredate>
               <Salary>2450</Salary>
          </Employee>
          <Employee>
               <EmployeeId>7839</EmployeeId>
               <Name>KING</Name>
               <Job>PRESIDENT</Job>
               <Hiredate>17-NOV-81</Hiredate>
               <Salary>5000</Salary>
          </Employee>
          <Employee>
               <EmployeeId>7934</EmployeeId>
               <Name>MILLER</Name>
               <Job>CLERK</Job>
               <Manager>7782</Manager>
               <Hiredate>23-JAN-82</Hiredate>
               <Salary>1300</Salary>
          </Employee>
     </Department>
     <Department>
          <DeptNo>20</DeptNo>
          <DeptName>RESEARCH</DeptName>
          <Location>DALLAS</Location>
          <Employee>
               <EmployeeId>7369</EmployeeId>
               <Name>SMITH</Name>
               <Job>CLERK</Job>
               <Manager>7902</Manager>
               <Hiredate>17-DEC-80</Hiredate>
               <Salary>800</Salary>
          </Employee>
          <Employee>
               <EmployeeId>7566</EmployeeId>
               <Name>JONES</Name>
               <Job>MANAGER</Job>
               <Manager>7839</Manager>
               <Hiredate>02-APR-81</Hiredate>
               <Salary>2975</Salary>
          </Employee>
          <Employee>
               <EmployeeId>7788</EmployeeId>
               <Name>SCOTT</Name>
               <Job>ANALYST</Job>
               <Manager>7566</Manager>
               <Hiredate>19-APR-87</Hiredate>
               <Salary>3000</Salary>
          </Employee>
          <Employee>
               <EmployeeId>7876</EmployeeId>
               <Name>ADAMS</Name>
               <Job>CLERK</Job>
               <Manager>7788</Manager>
               <Hiredate>23-MAY-87</Hiredate>
               <Salary>1100</Salary>
          </Employee>
          <Employee>
               <EmployeeId>7902</EmployeeId>
               <Name>FORD</Name>
               <Job>ANALYST</Job>
               <Manager>7566</Manager>
               <Hiredate>03-DEC-81</Hiredate>
               <Salary>3000</Salary>
          </Employee>
     </Department>
     <Department>
          <DeptNo>30</DeptNo>
          <DeptName>SALES</DeptName>
          <Location>CHICAGO</Location>
          <Employee>
               <EmployeeId>7499</EmployeeId>
               <Name>ALLEN</Name>
               <Job>SALESMAN</Job>
               <Manager>7698</Manager>
               <Hiredate>20-FEB-81</Hiredate>
               <Salary>1600</Salary>
               <Commission>300</Commission>
          </Employee>
          <Employee>
               <EmployeeId>7521</EmployeeId>
               <Name>WARD</Name>
               <Job>SALESMAN</Job>
               <Manager>7698</Manager>
               <Hiredate>22-FEB-81</Hiredate>
               <Salary>1250</Salary>
               <Commission>500</Commission>
          </Employee>
          <Employee>
               <EmployeeId>7654</EmployeeId>
               <Name>MARTIN</Name>
               <Job>SALESMAN</Job>
               <Manager>7698</Manager>
               <Hiredate>28-SEP-81</Hiredate>
               <Salary>1250</Salary>
               <Commission>1400</Commission>
          </Employee>
          <Employee>
               <EmployeeId>7698</EmployeeId>
               <Name>BLAKE</Name>
               <Job>MANAGER</Job>
               <Manager>7839</Manager>
               <Hiredate>01-MAY-81</Hiredate>
               <Salary>2850</Salary>
          </Employee>
          <Employee>
               <EmployeeId>7844</EmployeeId>
               <Name>TURNER</Name>
               <Job>SALESMAN</Job>
               <Manager>7698</Manager>
               <Hiredate>08-SEP-81</Hiredate>
               <Salary>1500</Salary>
               <Commission>0</Commission>
          </Employee>
          <Employee>
               <EmployeeId>7900</EmployeeId>
               <Name>JAMES</Name>
               <Job>CLERK</Job>
               <Manager>7698</Manager>
               <Hiredate>03-DEC-81</Hiredate>
               <Salary>950</Salary>
          </Employee>
     </Department>
     <Department>
          <DeptNo>40</DeptNo>
          <DeptName>OPERATIONS</DeptName>
          <Location>BOSTON</Location>
     </Department>
</DepartmentList>
It was stored in XMLTYPE table TESTXML
I have following queries
1) Select extractvalue(value(q),'//Employee')
from TESTXML x
, TABLE(XMLSEQUENCE(EXTRACT(value(x), '//Department/employee'))) p
, TABLE(XMLSEQUENCE(EXTRACT(value(p), '//Employee'))) q
2) Select extractvalue(value(q),'//Department')
from TESTXML x
, TABLE(XMLSEQUENCE(EXTRACT(value(x), '//Department/employee'))) p
, TABLE(XMLSEQUENCE(EXTRACT(value(p), '//Employee'))) q
I am getting no rows selected .
the query
Select extractvalue(value(p),'//Department')
from TESTXML x
, TABLE(XMLSEQUENCE(EXTRACT(value(x), '//Department'))) p
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-19025: EXTRACTVALUE returns value of only one node
How do we query on above XML using Xpath such as list of all departments, list of employees within department?
Thanks in advance.
Ram

Ram
I suggest you take the time to study the XML DB standard demo in some detail. It answer this and many of the other questions that you are asking. The answer to this question is to use xmlsequence, which allows the set of nodes which match your xpath expressed to be treated as a virtual table.
-Mark

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1 STR1 DEPT1_STR1
1 STR1 DEPT2_STR1
1 STR2 DEPT1_STR2
1 STR2 DEPT2_STR2
2 STR2 DEPT1_STR2
2 STR2 DEPT2_STR2
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--extractValue(value(dept),'/doc/store/id') as store_id,
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General information on the BPEL process:
I have a temporary table in Oracle lite that I created items to be review by the user. I created a synchronous BPEL process. The first step in developing this process, I created the straight forward invoke the table to get the records, transform the records with a change the approve flag = "Y", and invoke the table to update the records. Works like a charm. I followed the online tutorial by dropping a human task after the transform, configured the parameters, setup the assignments, and moved the invoke to update table under the approved condition. If the table has only one record, the process runs great but if there are two records I get the following error message.
<selectionFailure xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2003/03/business-process/"><part name="summary"><summary>XPath query string returns multiple nodes.
According to BPEL4WS spec 1.1 section 14.3, The assign activity part and query /ns3:TempItemCollection/ns3:TempItem/ns3:ItemNbr should not return multipe nodes.
Please check the BPEL source at line number "178" and verify the part and xpath query /ns3:TempItemCollection/ns3:TempItem/ns3:ItemNbr.
</summary>
</part></selectionFailure>
=================
The error occurs in the first assign of the Human task after the assign copies the fields for the title. I underlined line number 178.
<correlationSets>
<correlationSet name="WorkflowTaskIdCor"
properties="taskservice:taskId"/>
</correlationSets>
<sequence>
<assign name="HumanTask1_1_AssignTaskAttributes">
<copy>
<from expression="concat(ora:getProcessURL(), string('/HumanTask1/HumanTask1.task'))"/>
<to variable="initiateTaskInput" part="payload"
query="/taskservice:initiateTask/task:task/task:taskDefinitionURI"/>
</copy>
<copy>
<from expression="number(3)"/>
<to variable="initiateTaskInput" part="payload"
query="/taskservice:initiateTask/task:task/task:priority"/>
</copy>
<copy>
<from>
<payload xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/bpel/workflow/task">
<Case xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/bpel/workflow/task"/>
<CourtDate xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/bpel/workflow/task"/>
<ErrorMessage xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/bpel/workflow/task"/>
<ItemName xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/bpel/workflow/task"/>
<Payment xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/bpel/workflow/task"/>
<Zip xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/bpel/workflow/task"/>
<ProcessFlag xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/bpel/workflow/task"/>
<LastUpdated xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/bpel/workflow/task"/>
<AddedDate xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/bpel/workflow/task"/>
<CityAttnyAmount xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/bpel/workflow/task"/>
<ApprovalFlag xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/bpel/workflow/task"/>
<ProlawKey xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/bpel/workflow/task"/>
<ProcessKey xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/bpel/workflow/task"/>
</payload>
</from>
<to variable="initiateTaskInput" part="payload"
query="/taskservice:initiateTask/task:task/task:payload"/>
</copy>
<copy>
<from expression="concat(string('Item Fee Approval '), bpws:getVariableData('Invoke_1_Select_RecordsSelect_OutputVariable','TempItemCollection','/ns3:TempItemCollection/ns3:TempItem/ns3:ItemName'))"/>
<to variable="initiateTaskInput" part="payload"
query="/taskservice:initiateTask/task:task/task:title"/>
</copy>
<copy>
<from variable="Invoke_1_Select_RecordsSelect_OutputVariable"
part="TempItemCollection"
query="/ns3:TempItemCollection/ns3:TempItem/ns3:ItemNbr"/>
<to variable="initiateTaskInput" part="payload"
query="/taskservice:initiateTask/task:task/task:payload/task:Item"/>
</copy>
<copy>
Thank you for any help you can give me.

Here is how I solved this problem: I was told by the metalink folks that I should use the same verion of SOA console as jdev. So I went back to jdev 10.1.3.1. Rather than reading from the Oracle lite table, I dumped the table into a flat file. I read flat file and populated the workflow. Remember to set the 'messages in batch' flag in the file adapter to 1 and the number of records to skip to zero in the format builder for the flat file. The process now reads each record and creates an instance for that each record. In other words, if I have 8 records in my flat file, I will have 8 instances of the process running on the console. Thanks Jeremy for your help figuring this out.
Edited by: user7725126 on Nov 19, 2009 3:56 PM

XPath query string returns zero node error

I have created car loan bpel application. One is Citi Loan and another is Star Loan.
I have created just like similar to sample loan demo.
I have entered the SSN, email, carModel, carYear, loanAmount and creditRating value and submitted. It will initiated the following tasks successfully.
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CitiLoan Instance
TaskManager Instance
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</part>
</output>
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<selectionFailure>
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Try this:
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Total newbie to this pl/sql stuff. So, deseperately need help in my query.
BOOKING_ID     BOOKING_STATUS     BOOKING_DATE     BOOKING_TIME     BOOKING_DATE_TIME
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1234567     CANCELLED 20090301     44229     5/1/2010 12:17
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9671111     BOOKED     20090301     68124     5/1/2010 12:57
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Hi, Stanley,
Welcome to the forum!
Whenever you have a question, please post your sample data in a form that people can actually use. CREATE TABLE and INSERT statements are perfect.
For example:
CREATE TABLE     booking
(     booking_id          NUMBER (8)
,     booking_status          VARCHAR2 (10)
,     booking_date_time     DATE
INSERT INTO booking (booking_id, booking_status, booking_date_time)
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INSERT INTO booking (booking_id, booking_status, booking_date_time)
              VALUES (1234567,        'CANCELLED',        TO_DATE ('5/1/2010 12:17', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI'));
INSERT INTO booking (booking_id, booking_status, booking_date_time)
              VALUES (1234567,        'BOOKED',        TO_DATE ('5/1/2010 10:57', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI'));
INSERT INTO booking (booking_id, booking_status, booking_date_time)
              VALUES (1234567,        'CANCELLED',        TO_DATE ('5/1/2010 12:05', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI'));
INSERT INTO booking (booking_id, booking_status, booking_date_time)
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Here's one way to do it:
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,     TO_CHAR (booking_date_time, 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI')     AS booking_date_time
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Of course, if you're using PL/SQL for other reasons, you can use a query like this within PL/SQL.
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If you have a DATE column, like booking_date_time, then there's no need for redundant date and time columns.
You can always display just the year-month-day, or just the time, in any format, as I did above.
The output from the query above, with the data above, is:
BOOKING_ID BOOKING_ST BOOKING_ BOOKI BOOKING_DATE_TIM
   9671111 BOOKED     20100501 46620 05/01/2010 12:57I realize the booking_date and booking_time columns aren't quite what you posted. If they are not derivable from booking_date_time, then you probably do need separate columns for them, and those columns can easily be added to the query above.
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KEEP (DENSE_RANK ...) , like Max used below, is a great tool to have in your kit. The problem with it is that you have to repeat a lot of stuff for every column, so the more columns you have in your output, the more tedious it gets. ROW_NUMBER sclaes much better, and is adaptable to more situations. I suggest you master ROW_NUMBER first, and look into KEEP (DENSE_RANK ...) later.

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I need help with SQL query (if it can be accomplished with query at all).
I'm going to create a table with structure similar to:
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