Set Attribute using xmldom

Question

I have read in an xml document and provided the user with an interface to update information. I need to use this updated information to set attributes in an DOM Tree using the xmldom pl/sql package. How do I do this

Answer 1

DBMS_XMLDOM.setAttribute does escape actually :
SQL> declare
  2   doc dbms_xmldom.DOMDocument;
  3   e   dbms_xmldom.DOMElement;
  4   buf varchar2(4000);
  5  begin
  6   doc := dbms_xmldom.newDOMDocument('<dummy id1="" id2=""/>');
  7   e := dbms_xmldom.getDocumentElement(doc);
  8   dbms_xmldom.setAttribute(e, 'id1', 'R&D');
  9   dbms_xmldom.setAttribute(e, 'id2', 'X''Y');
10   dbms_xmldom.writeToBuffer(doc, buf);
11   dbms_xmldom.freeElement(e);
12   dbms_xmldom.freeDocument(doc);
13 
14   dbms_output.put_line(buf);
15  end;
16  /
<dummy id1="R&amp;D" id2="X&apos;Y"/>
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed
(tested on 11.2.0.2)
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