Read XML data without name spaces from PL/SQL

Question

Hi,
I am trying to upload XML data without namespaces into Oracle tables from PL/SQL. Below is the sample XML data.
Please let me know,How this is achievable in PL/SQL?
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<insplist ver="2" count="1">
<insp id="219991" timestamp="134817078" stat="G" operator_id="999999" >
<data name="TIME CLOCK - PUNCH" val="INNER" type="STRING" />
</insp>
</insplist>
Thanks

Answer 1

And it's even simpler with the GET method as we just have to pass the url :
SQL> DECLARE
  2 
  3    v_url      varchar2(200) := 'http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?sensor=false&address=';
  4    v_address  varchar2(200) := '1 rue Victor Hugo Paris France';
  5 
  6    v_req      utl_http.req;
  7    v_rsp      utl_http.resp;
  8 
  9 
10 
11    v_xml      varchar2(32767);
12 
13    v_lng      number;
14    v_lat      number;
15 
16  BEGIN
17 
18    v_req := utl_http.begin_request(v_url || utl_url.escape(v_address), 'GET', utl_http.HTTP_VERSION_1_1);
19    v_rsp := utl_http.get_response(v_req);
20 
21    utl_http.read_text(v_rsp, v_xml);
22    utl_http.end_response(v_rsp);
23 
24    select longitude, latitude
25    into v_lng, v_lat
26    from xmltable(
27         '/GeocodeResponse/result/geometry/location'
28         passing xmlparse(document v_xml)
29         columns longitude number path 'lng'
30               , latitude  number path 'lat'
31         )
32    ;
33 
34    dbms_output.put_line('Longitude = ' || v_lng);
35    dbms_output.put_line('Latitude = ' || v_lat);
36 
37  END;
38  /
Longitude = 2.2734472
Latitude = 48.8282741
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed
Or, taking shorcuts :
SQL> select *
  2  from xmltable(
  3       '/GeocodeResponse/result/geometry/location'
  4       passing httpuritype('http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?sensor=false&address='
  5                           || utl_url.escape('1 rue Victor Hugo Paris France')
  6                           ).getxml()
  7       columns longitude number path 'lng'
  8             , latitude  number path 'lat'
  9       )
10  ;
LONGITUDE   LATITUDE
2,2734472 48,8282741