Parsing XML passed as CLOBs to stored procedures

Question

I am a newbie using XML with PL/SQL. I would like to pass XML as a CLOB to a stored procedure, parse the nodes in a loop and insert or update records. Something like this:
The xml:
<emps>
<emp>
<empno>7369</empno>
<ename>SMITH</ename>
</emp>
<emp>
<empno>7499</empno>
<ename>ALLEN</ename>
</emp>
</emps>
In the stored procedure:
CREATE update_emps( xmlCLob in CLOB )
begin
load xmlClob into parser p
nodelist = p.someMethod( '/emps/emp' )
for each node in nodelist
insert into emp( empno, ename) values ( node.empno, node.ename
end loop
cleanup
end
Any assistance you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
TIA

Answer 1

If the file size is not large, it seems easier to use XSLT to transform the doc and using XSU to do the updates.