SOAP envelope XML body extraction

Question

hello , I'm new in the 'XML-world' and also new on this forum but i have a question.
My function :
create or replace
FUNCTION DHL_SOAP_RESPONSE_XMLTYPE RETURN XMLType AS
SOAP_RESPONSE constant varchar2(32767) :=
'<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<SOAP-ENV:Header/>
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<rateresp:RateResponse xmlns:rateresp="http://scxgxtt.phx-dc.dhl.com/euExpressRateBook/RateMsgResponse">
<Provider code="DHL">
<Notification code="0">
<Message/>
</Notification>
<Service type="C">
<TotalNet>
<Currency>EUR</Currency>
<Amount>17.28</Amount>
</TotalNet>
<Charges>
<Currency>EUR</Currency>
<Charge>
<ChargeType>MEDICAL EXPRESS</ChargeType>
<ChargeAmount>14.77</ChargeAmount>
</Charge>
<Charge>
<ChargeType>FUEL SURCHARGE</ChargeType>
<ChargeAmount>2.51</ChargeAmount>
</Charge>
</Charges>
<DeliveryTime>2013-02-06T12:00:00</DeliveryTime>
<CutoffTime>2013-02-05T20:30:00</CutoffTime>
<NextBusinessDayInd>N</NextBusinessDayInd>
</Service>
<Service type="T">
<TotalNet>
<Currency>EUR</Currency>
<Amount>17.28</Amount>
</TotalNet>
<Charges>
<Currency>EUR</Currency>
<Charge>
<ChargeType>EXPRESS 12:00</ChargeType>
<ChargeAmount>14.77</ChargeAmount>
</Charge>
<Charge>
<ChargeType>FUEL SURCHARGE</ChargeType>
<ChargeAmount>2.51</ChargeAmount>
</Charge>
</Charges>
<DeliveryTime>2013-02-06T12:00:00</DeliveryTime>
<CutoffTime>2013-02-05T20:30:00</CutoffTime>
<NextBusinessDayInd>N</NextBusinessDayInd>
</Service>
<Service type="G">
<TotalNet>
<Currency/>
<Amount>0.00</Amount>
</TotalNet>
<DeliveryTime>2013-02-06T23:59:00</DeliveryTime>
<CutoffTime>2013-02-05T20:30:00</CutoffTime>
<NextBusinessDayInd>N</NextBusinessDayInd>
</Service>
<Service type="N">
<TotalNet>
<Currency>EUR</Currency>
<Amount>13.69</Amount>
</TotalNet>
<Charges>
<Currency>EUR</Currency>
<Charge>
<ChargeType>DOMESTIC EXPRESS</ChargeType>
<ChargeAmount>11.70</ChargeAmount>
</Charge>
<Charge>
<ChargeType>FUEL SURCHARGE</ChargeType>
<ChargeAmount>1.99</ChargeAmount>
</Charge>
</Charges>
<DeliveryTime>2013-02-06T23:59:00</DeliveryTime>
<CutoffTime>2013-02-05T20:30:00</CutoffTime>
<NextBusinessDayInd>N</NextBusinessDayInd>
</Service>
<Service type="9">
<TotalNet>
<Currency/>
<Amount>0.00</Amount>
</TotalNet>
<DeliveryTime>2013-02-07T23:59:00</DeliveryTime>
<CutoffTime>2013-02-05T16:30:00</CutoffTime>
<NextBusinessDayInd>N</NextBusinessDayInd>
</Service>
</Provider>
</rateresp:RateResponse>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
BEGIN
RETURN XMLType(SOAP_RESPONSE);
END;
Now what I want is extract the body of the respons with a select .
Can someone help me because I don't understand this ?
I work with the Oracle Database XE 11g.
SQL developer.
Thanks already

Answer 1

Welcome to the forums.
As a tip for future posts [url https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2174552#9360002]2. How do I ask a question on the forums?
That said, a basic example that pulls the contents of the body out is
declare
  l_ws_rsp    XMLTYPE;
  l_body_rsp  XMLTYPE;
begin
  -- Retrieving the SOAP message
  l_ws_rsp := DHL_SOAP_RESPONSE_XMLTYPE;
  -- Extracting out the body
  SELECT xt.body_xml
    INTO l_body_rsp
    FROM XMLTable(XMLNamespaces('http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/' AS "SOAP-ENV"),
                  '/SOAP-ENV:Envelope/SOAP-ENV:Body/*'
                  PASSING l_ws_rsp
                  COLUMNS
                  body_xml   XMLTYPE PATH '.') xt;
   dbms_output.put_line(l_body_rsp.getClobVal());
end;If you Google
XMLTable soap site:forums.oracle.com
you can find plenty of examples on these forums regarding how to parse a web service response.
The bigger question is, what are you going to do with the data in the response. As the example above alludes too, you can actually parse the entire WS response with one SQL statement and return the results as one or more rows. Will you be performing PL/SQL logic on the returned results or will you simply be INSERTing them into the database for something else to use?