How to save sections of a single XML Document to multiple tables ?

Question

Firstly, I apologise for the long e-mail but I feel it's necessary in order to clarify my problem/question.
The XML document representation below stores information about a particular database. From the information in the XML document you can tell that there is a single database called "tst" which contains a single table called "tst_table". This table in turn has two columns called "CompanyName" & "Country".
I want to use Oracle's XML SQL Utility to store this information into three seperate database tables. Specifically, I want to store the information pertaining to the database (i.e. name etc.) in one table, the information pertaining to the table (name, no. of columns etc.) in another and the information pertaining to the columns (name, type etc.) in yet another table.
I have seen samples where an entire XML Document is saved to a database table but I cannot find any examples where different sections of a single XML Document are saved into different database tables using the XML SQL Utility.
Can you please tell me the best approach to take in order to accomplish this . Does it involve creating an XMLDocument and then extracting the relevant sections as XMLDocumentFragment's, retrieving the String representations of these XMLDocumentFragment's and passing these strings to the OracleXMLSave.insertXml() method.
Is this the best approach to take or are there any other, perhaps more efficient or elegant, ways of doing this ?
Thanks in advance for your help
- Garry
<DATABASE id="1" name="tst">
<TABLES>
<TABLE name="tst_table">
<NAME>Customers</NAME>
<COLUMNS>
<COLUMN num="1"> <COLID>2</COLID>
<COLNAME>CompanyName</COLNAME>
<COLTYPE>Text</COLTYPE>
</COLUMN>
<COLUMN num="2">
<COLID>3</COLID>
<COLNAME>Country</COLNAME>
<COLTYPE>Text</COLTYPE>
</COLUMN>
</COLUMNS>
</TABLE>
</TABLES>
</DATABASE>
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Answer 1

See this thread;
{thread:id=2180799}
Jeff