Insert new node into XML

Question

I am trying to read some xml into an xmltype variable in pl/sql and then add a new node to that xml before returning it. The original xml held in xmlcol column on xmltab table could look something like this:
<MyMessage>
   <SubjectName>
          <Title>Mr</Title>
          <FirstName>Fred</FirstName>
          <LastName>Bloggs</LastName>
   </SubjectName>
   <SubjectAddress>
          <HouseNumber>123</HouseNumber>
          <Street>Fake Street</Street>
          <City>Newville</City>
   </SubjectAddress>
</MyMessage>The pl/sql code would look something like this:
procedure xmltest (in_activity in varchar2,
                            out_xml out xmltype) is
cursor c_xmldata is
select xmlcol
from xmltab;
v_xmldata  xmltype;
begin
open c_xmldata;
fetch c_xmldata into v_xmldata;
close c_xmldata;
-- ** manipulate the xml to add a node called Activity and its value after the Subject Address
-- ** then output the updated xml as out_xml
end;So my output xml would look like:
<MyMessage>
   <SubjectName>
          <Title>Mr</Title>
          <FirstName>Fred</FirstName>
          <LastName>Bloggs</LastName>
   </SubjectName>
   <SubjectAddress>
          <HouseNumber>123</HouseNumber>
          <Street>Fake Street</Street>
          <City>Newville</City>
   </SubjectAddress>
  <Activity>Client contacted</Activity>
</MyMessage>Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

Have you looked at this thread?
clob-xml-clob