Loop through nested elements and insert via PL/SQL

Question

INSERT INTO Orders(id, OrderXML) VALUES
(S_Orders.Nextval,
'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Order xmlns="urn:foo" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:foo foo-1.xsd">
<OrderRef>BBB</OrderRef>
<OrderDate>2005-03-29</OrderDate>
<CustomerID>1051</CustomerID>
<Items>
<Item>
<ProductID>7</ProductID>
<Price>45.6</Price>
<Quantity>2</Quantity>
</Item>
<Item>
<ProductID>19</ProductID>
<Price>73.5</Price>
<Quantity>10</Quantity>
</Item>
</Items>
</Order>'
I some questions regarding index search of nested elements like,Items in the above example.
I would like to know how I can LOOP through the Items like 1..2 LOOP
and insert those elements(item) into one table. Order information should go in to another table.
Can this be done with xpath and PL/SQL.
Regards
Ulf

Answer 1

Hi Marco!
Here's some more information:
CREATE TABLE ITEM (ProductID NUMBER,
Price NUMBER(8,2)
Quantity 10 NUMBER);
CREATE TABLE ORDER (OrderRef VARCHAR2(10),
ORDER_DATE VARCHAR2(10),
CUSTOMERID NUMBER);
The main problem that I have is to create an solution that can be dynamic so that I can have for instance one order and four items in one XML.
The second XML can have one order and 10 items.
First I want to insert the order elements in the order table and then the items records in the item table.
To complicate things futher my real XML have namespaces in the XML, but this I think I can handle.
Summary: So for each order row(element) I want to traverse the Item elements and insert them to the Item table.
Regards
/Ulf