Help in XML parse

Question

Can anyone help in parsing a XML formatted like this by using pl/sql:
<user><id>myId</id><test><type>XYType</type>hereisthevalue</test></user>
thanks.

Answer 1

It really depends on what you want to do with it but here is one option:
This block will parse out the user id and test type. I am typing this without access to a database to try it or an xml editor. I think you have an error in your xml. I removed "hereisthevalue" as it is in the wrong place. It needs to be wrapped in an additional tag.
declare
v_xml xmltype ;
begin
v_xml := xmltype('<user><id>myId</id><test><type>XYType</type></test></user>');
dbms_output.put_line('User ID=' || v_xml.extract('/user/id/text()).getStringVal());
dbms_output.put_line('Test Type=' || v_xml.extract('/user/test/type/text()).getStringVal());
end;
Hope that helps,
LewisC