How to Insert data from an XML file into an Oracle 10g table

Question

Hello,
Please can you help me as I have hit a brick wall with this problem.
We are running version 10g Oracle and we will start receiving XML files with employee data that needs loading into a table, this is the XML file:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<RECRUITS>
<RECRUIT>
<FIRST_NAME>Gordon</FIRST_NAME>
<LAST_NAME>Brown</LAST_NAME>
<SHORT_NAME>GORDONBROWN</SHORT_NAME>
<APP_NO>00002</APP_NO>
<STATUS>M</STATUS>
<DATE_FROM>21-JUL-2006</DATE_FROM>
<RESOURCE_TYPE>P</RESOURCE_TYPE>
<TITLE>Mr</TITLE>
<DATE_OF_BIRTH>28-DEC-1983</DATE_OF_BIRTH>
<SOCIAL_SEC>AB128456A</SOCIAL_SEC>
<PARTTIME_PCT>1</PARTTIME_PCT>
<SEX>M</SEX>
<ADDRESS_TYPE>1</ADDRESS_TYPE>
<ADDRESS>A HOUSE SOMEWHERE HERE</ADDRESS>
<ZIP_CODE>PE3 LLL</ZIP_CODE>
<PLACE>BOROUGH</PLACE>
<COUNTRY_CODE>UK</COUNTRY_CODE>
<PROVINCE>UK</PROVINCE>
<EMAIL>[email protected]</EMAIL>
</RECRUIT>
(FYI - there may be more than 1 employee in each file so all of the above will be repeated X amount of times)
</RECRUITS>
To make things simple we have created a table which mirrors the XML file completely to load the data into, the SQL i have used is thus:
CREATE TABLE RECRUITMENT
FIRST_NAME VARCHAR2(30),
LAST_NAME VARCHAR2(30),
SHORT_NAME VARCHAR2(30),
APP_NO NUMBER,
STATUS VARCHAR2(1),
DATE_FROM DATE,
RESOURCE_TYPE VARCHAR2(1),
TITLE VARCHAR2(4),
DATE_OF_BIRTH DATE,
SOCIAL_SEC VARCHAR2(9),
PARTTIME_PCT NUMBER,
SEX VARCHAR2(1),
ADDRESS_TYPE VARCHAR2(1),
ADDRESS VARCHAR2(30),
ZIP_CODE VARCHAR2(8),
PLACE VARCHAR2(10),
PROVINCE VARCHAR2(3),
EMAIL VARCHAR2(20)
Every method we try from the numerous documents and so called "user guides" have failed, please can somebody show me the PL/SQL i need to get this files data into the above table?
We need to be able to do this purely through SQL*PLUS as we hope - if we ever get it working manually to create a procuedure that will encapsulate everything so it can be run over and over again.
The XML file is sitting in the XMLDIR and is called REC.XML.
Please help : (

Answer 1

Hi, I have got some material for inserting data into oracle table from xml file, this might help you.
Create XML Document Table
create table XML_DOCUMENT_TABLE
FILENAME varchar2(64),
XML_DOCUMENT XMLTYPE
(This will be as per your record details).
Inserting record to Oracle Table
declare
XML_TEXT CLOB := '<smsnotification>
               <messageid> 256427844 </messageid>
          <protocolid> CO0NPS2KHQ </protocolid>
          <notifiedon> 1156123007416 </notifiedon>
          <status> 3PBI: Invalid </status>
<additionalinfo> Customer account not active </additionalinfo>
<carrierid> 1175 </carrierid>
</smsnotification>';
begin
insert into XML_DOCUMENT_TABLE values ('Receipt.xml',XMLTYPE(XML_TEXT));
end;
Select Statement
select extractValue(XML_DOCUMENT,'/smsnotification/messageid') Messageid,
extractValue(XML_DOCUMENT,'/smsnotification/status') Status,
extractValue(XML_DOCUMENT,'/smsnotification/carrierid') CarrierID
from XML_DOCUMENT_TABLE;