Producing nested xml with querying attributes from a nested table

How can one produce nested xml querying columns from a nested table? Looking at the object documentation, I can readily unnest the tables. Using your examples in the book, unnesting is select po.pono, ..., l.* from purchaseorder_objtab po, table (po.lineitemlist_ntab) l where l.quantity = 2;
what if I don't want to unnest and don't want a cursor. I would like to produce nested xml.

Gail,
Although you can use XSU (XML-SQL Util) in 8.1.7, I would recommend that you upgrade to 9i for much better support (both in functionality and performance) of XML in the database. For example, in Oracle9i there are:
- a new datatype - XMLType for storing and retrieving XML documents
- DBMS_XMLGEN package and SYS_XMLGEN, SYS_XMLAGG functions for generating XML document from complex SQL queries
- A pipelined table function to break down large XML documents into rows.
You can check out some examples using SYS_XMLGEN and DBMS_XMLGEN for your specific needs at http://download-west.oracle.com/otndoc/oracle9i/901_doc/appdev.901/a88894/adx05xml.htm#1017141
Regards,
Geoff

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 return
 replace node $i with $i/child::node()
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</ITEM>
<ITEM>
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</ROOT>'
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ORA-19112: error raised during evaluation:
XVM-01020: [XPTY0020] The path step context item is not a node
6 replace node $i with $i/child::node()
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paul zip wrote:
when I try to pass in a path variable, it doesn't.Yes, paths are not variables, they have to be static. However, you can make the whole query dynamic.
Another option is XSLT, which will work on both releases, or a combination of extract/updatexml calls.
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2 return XMLType
3 is
4 result XMLType;
5 xsl_template varchar2(2000) :=
6 '<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
7 <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
8 <xsl:copy>
9 <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
10 </xsl:copy>
11 </xsl:template>
12 <xsl:template match="#TARGET_XPATH#">
13 <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
14 </xsl:template>
15 </xsl:stylesheet>';
16
17 begin
18
19 select xmltransform(
20 pXMLData
21 , xmlparse(document replace(xsl_template, '#TARGET_XPATH#', pXPath))
22 )
23 into result
24 from dual ;
25
26 return result;
27
28 end;
29 /
Function created
SQL> set long 5000
SQL>
SQL> select unnest(
2 xmltype(
3 '<ROOT>
4 <ITEM>
5 <DESCRIPTION>TEST1</DESCRIPTION>
6 </ITEM>
7 <ITEM>
8 <DESCRIPTION>TEST2</DESCRIPTION>
9 </ITEM>
10 </ROOT>'),
11 '/ROOT/ITEM'
12 )
13 from dual;
UNNEST(XMLTYPE('<ROOT><ITEM><D
<ROOT>
<DESCRIPTION>TEST1</DESCRIPTION>
<DESCRIPTION>TEST2</DESCRIPTION>
</ROOT>
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