Reading element from XMLTYPE column with repeated

Question

I have below data in my XML column and want to read all the values of <name>
<data>
<name>aaa</name>
<name>bbb</name>
<name>ccc</name>
</data>
Please suggest.
Regards.

Answer 1

SQL> SET LINES 100
SQL> DESC XMLTABLE
Name                                                  Null?    Type
XML1                                                           XMLTYPE
ID                                                             NUMBER
SQL> SET LINES 10000
SQL> COLUMN XML1 FORMAT A100
SQL> SELECT * FROM XMLTABLE;
XML1                                                                                                      ID
<data>                                                                                                     1
  <name>aaa</name>
  <name>bbb</name>
  <name>ccc</name>
</data>
SQL> SELECT ID, extract(XML1,'/data/name/text()') EXTRACTED FROM XMLTABLE
  2  /
        ID EXTRACTED
         1 aaabbbccc
SQL> Or
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
  1  SELECT
  2     ID,
  3     substr( trim(replace(replace (replace(replace (XML1,'<data>', ' '), '</data>', ' '), '</name>', ' '), '<name>', ', ')), 3) EXTRACTED
  4  FROM
  5*    XMLTABLE
SQL> /
        ID EXTRACTED
         1  aaa
           , bbb
           , ccc