Reading Data From XML File to SQL Tables.

Question

I Have XML of this type
<empdept>
<employees_marks>
<emp_id>1</emp_id>
<DIVISION_ID>BUS</DIVISION_ID>
<JOB_ID>PRE</JOB_ID>
<FIRST_NAME>SMITH</FIRST_NAME>
<LAST_NAME>JAMES</LAST_NAME>
<salary>10000</salary>
</employees_marks>
<dept>
<dept_details>
<deptid>10</deptid>
<deptname>Mechanical</deptname>
</dept_details>
<dept_details>
<deptid>20</deptid>
<deptname>Civil</deptname>
</dept_details>
<dept_details>
<deptid>30</deptid>
<deptname>ICE</deptname>
</dept_details>
</dept>
</empdept>'));
With the above format am able to retrieve data successfully into relational tables,
<employees_marks emp_id=1 DIVISION_ID=BUS JOB_ID=PRE salary=10000 />
<dept_details deptid=10 deptname='Mechanical'/>
<dept_details deptid=20 deptname='ECE'/>
<dept_details deptid=30 deptname='EEE'/>
i.e., I have data as attributes rather than elements, so can I know the way how I can acheive the requirement,
How to retrieve data when it is present as attributes rather than elements.
Thanks,
Sunil. N

Answer 1

Sunil N wrote:
I Have XML of this type
<dept_details deptid=10 deptname='Mechanical'/>
<dept_details deptid=20 deptname='ECE'/>
<dept_details deptid=30 deptname='EEE'/>
i.e., I have data as attributes rather than elements, so can I know the way how I can acheive the requirement,
How to retrieve data when it is present as attributes rather than elements.I just posted an example of how to deal with tags instead of elements in XML in {message:id=3935746} yesterday.
The short of it is that you need to use the "+@"+ character as the attribute name - and that tells the XML parser that the attribute is a tag in an element and not an element itself. E.g.
extract(  xmlData, '/dept_details/@deptid' ) as DEPT_ID
extract(  xmlData, '/dept_details/@deptname' ) as DEPT_NAME