How to store multiple child nodes using dbms_xmlstore

Question

Hi,
I'm using oracle 10g environment. In DBMS_XMLSTORE package I cannot able to insert the multiple child node value into db table.
Here I have given the xml value
<DATAPACKET REQUEST-ID="10001094">
  <HEADER>
    <SEARCH-RESULT-LIST>
      <SEARCH-RESULT-ITEM NAME="Ra-Al-Gul" CONFIDENCE-SCORE="750" BUREAU-ID="893991307899440">
        <IDENTIFIERS>
          <IDENTIFIER IDSOURCE="0001" MATCHED="TRUE"/>
        </IDENTIFIERS>
        <SURROGATES>
          <SURROGATE ID="CH0001" MATCHED="TRUE"/>
          <SURROGATE ID="CH0002" MATCHED="TRUE"/>
          <SURROGATE ID="CH0003" MATCHED="TRUE"/>
        </SURROGATES>
      </SEARCH-RESULT-ITEM>
    </SEARCH-RESULT-LIST>
  </HEADER>
</DATAPACKET>for this xml data I have created the below table structure
-- Table create script
CREATE TABLE xml_insert (datapacket t_response );
/* Type creation  code  */
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE t_response AS OBJECT
  "@REQUEST-ID" VARCHAR2(100),
  header        t_resp_header
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE t_resp_header AS OBJECT
  "SEARCH-RESULT-LIST"    t_search_item
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE t_search_item AS OBJECT
("SEARCH-RESULT-ITEM"      t_search_list);
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE t_search_list AS OBJECT
("@NAME"           VARCHAR2(300),
"@CONFIDENCE-SCORE"      VARCHAR2(300),
"@BUREAU-ID"           VARCHAR2(300),
IDENTIFIERS           t_search_identifiers,
SURROGATES           t_search_surrogates
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE t_search_identifiers AS OBJECT
(IDENTIFIER           t_search_IDENTIFIER);
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE t_search_identifier AS OBJECT
  "@IDSOURCE"           VARCHAR2(20),
  "@MATCHED"           VARCHAR2(20)
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE t_search_surrogates AS OBJECT
(SURROGATE           t_search_SURROGATE);
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE t_search_surrogate AS OBJECT
"@ID"                VARCHAR2(20),
"@MATCHED"           VARCHAR2(20)
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE tb_search_surrogate AS TABLE of t_search_SURROGATE;
/and run this block
  DECLARE
  insCtx DBMS_XMLStore.ctxType;
  rows NUMBER;
  xmldoc CLOB :=
<ROWSET>
<ROW>
<DATAPACKET REQUEST-ID="Q10001094">
  <HEADER>
    <SEARCH-RESULT-LIST>
      <SEARCH-RESULT-ITEM NAME="Anis kulam" CONFIDENCE-SCORE="750" BUREAU-ID="893991307899440">
        <IDENTIFIERS>
          <IDENTIFIER IDSOURCE="0001" MATCHED="TRUE"/>
        </IDENTIFIERS>
        <SURROGATES>
          <SURROGATE ID="CH0001" MATCHED="TRUE"/>
          <SURROGATE ID="CH0002" MATCHED="TRUE"/>
          <SURROGATE ID="CH0003" MATCHED="TRUE"/>
        </SURROGATES>
      </SEARCH-RESULT-ITEM>
    </SEARCH-RESULT-LIST>
  </HEADER>
</DATAPACKET>
</ROW>
</ROWSET>';
BEGIN
  insCtx := DBMS_XMLStore.newContext('xml_check');
  rows := DBMS_XMLStore.insertXML(insCtx, xmlDoc);
  DBMS_XMLStore.closeContext(insCtx);
END;I got the following error
Error Messgae :
ORA-19031: XML element or attribute SURROGATE does not match any in type DOHADEV.T_CRB_SEARCH_SURROGATES
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_XMLSTORE", line 78
ORA-06512: at line 28

Answer 1

Hi,
A couple of comments to begin with :
- Your setup script, test case and error message are not consistent with each other.
- You've not chosen the easiest road with DBMS_XMLSTORE and nested objects. As pointed out in a previous thread of yours, the whole thing would be far more simple with XMLTable.
Do you really need to store the data in an object-relational structure at the end, or do you intend to further break it down into relational rows and columns?
Do you have an XML schema?