Opening file for dbms_xmldom

Question

Hello, I'm using Oracle 10g and trying to parse an XML file using dbms_xmldom. How do I retrieve the XML from the UNIX directory? Do I use util_file.fopen?

Answer 1

A_Non wrote:
A pure PL/SQL example, based off Method 4 from [url http://anononxml.blogspot.com/2010/05/one-question-that-comes-up-with-some.html]Basic XML Parsing via PL/SQL  would be
(not tested)
And to be even more complete, let's not forget to unescape character entities (if any) :
SQL> DECLARE
  2 
  3    v_doc  xmltype := xmltype('<root><name>SMITH&amp;WESSON</name></root>');
  4    v_name varchar2(30);
  5 
  6  BEGIN
  7 
  8    v_name := v_doc.extract('/root/name/text()').getStringVal();
  9    dbms_output.put_line('name = '||v_name);
10 
11    v_name := dbms_xmlgen.convert(
12                v_doc.extract('/root/name/text()').getStringVal()
13              , dbms_xmlgen.ENTITY_DECODE
14              );
15    dbms_output.put_line('name = '||v_name);
16 
17    v_name := utl_i18n.unescape_reference(v_doc.extract('/root/name/text()').getStringVal());
18    dbms_output.put_line('name = '||v_name);
19 
20  END;
21  /
name = SMITH&amp;WESSON
name = SMITH&WESSON
name = SMITH&WESSON
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed