Is there a preferred format of XML that can be laoded into an Oracle table?

Question

XML files vary quite a bit. From mere fragments to file carrying schema, etc. What is the preferred format of an XML file that can be loaded into an Oracle table assuming that the Schema agrees with the table structure.
It does not seem to load an XML file even with W3C namespace and all.
Krishnaswamy Jayaram

Answer 1

With XE there is XML support in the database but no XQuery, JNDI, or Servlet support.
If you give a specific example it could be helpful, here are simple write and read tests on XE;
HR on 20/03/2006 10:28:22 at XE > CREATE TABLE xml_tab (xmlval XMLTYPE);
Table created.
HR on 20/03/2006 10:28:31 at XE > INSERT INTO xml_tab VALUES (
2 XMLTYPE.CREATEXML(’
3
4 221
5 John
6 ‘));
1 row created.
HR on 20/03/2006 10:28:41 at XE > INSERT INTO xml_tab VALUES (
2 XMLTYPE.CREATEXML(’
3
4 331
5 PO_1
6 ‘));
1 row created.
HR on 20/03/2006 10:28:49 at XE > select x.xmlval.getstringval() from xml_tab x;
X.XMLVAL.GETSTRINGVAL()
221
John
331
PO_1