How to read this xml

Question

I have the following xml
<title>Title1
     <alternative>Sub Title</alternative>
</title>
How to get the value "Title1" only from the above xml without considering the child tag <alternative>?
thanks
Deb

Answer 1

SQL> with XML as
  2  (
  3  select XMLTYPE(
  4  '<title>Title1
  5     <alternative>Sub Title</alternative>
  6  </title>') as OBJECT_VALUE from DUAL
  7  )
  8  select XMLQUERY('/title/child::text()' passing OBJECT_VALUE returning content)
  9    from XML
10  /
Title1
SQL> with XML as
  2  (
  3  select XMLTYPE(
  4  '<title>Title1
  5     <alternative>Sub Title</alternative>More Text
  6  </title>') as OBJECT_VALUE from DUAL
  7  )
  8  select XMLQUERY('/title/child::text()' passing OBJECT_VALUE returning content)
  9    from XML
10  /
Title1
   More Text
SQL> with XML as
  2  (
  3  select XMLTYPE(
  4  '<title>Title1
  5     <alternative>Sub Title</alternative>More Text
  6  </title>') as OBJECT_VALUE from DUAL
  7  )
  8  select XMLQUERY('/title/descendant::text()' passing OBJECT_VALUE returning content)
  9    from XML
10  /
Title1
   Sub TitleMore Text
SQL>Edited by: mdrake on Nov 20, 2010 3:24 PM