Updating an oracle table with data from an xml string

Question

Hi - I need help with the following problem:
We have a table in the database with a field of xml type. We are going to take each string that gets inserted into the xml type field in the 'xml table' and parse the data into another oracle table with corresponding fields for every element.
once the record gets inserted into the 'real table' the user might want to update this record they will then insert another record into the 'xml table' indicating an update(with a flag) and then we need to update the 'real table' with the updated values that have been sent in.
The problem that I am having is that I do not know how to create this update statement that will tell me which fields of the table need to be updated.(only the fields that need to be updated will be in the xml string in the 'xml table').
Please help me with this - ASAP!

Answer 1

Are you wanting to upload the file through an Oracle Form or just upload a file? If it isn't via forms, then you should probably post your question here: {forum:id=732}
You also should post the version of Forms, Database, etc...
As far as uploading files via a text file, I personally like to use Oracle External Tables even in Forms. You can Google that and there is plenty of information. If you search this forum, then you will see lots of people use UTL_FILE in forms, but you can Google that also for more information.