Urgent Help on XML

Question

Hi all,
I am new to XML. I have a text variable say for example:
v_doc_text :=
'<emp>
<empno no="3">1</empno>
<fname>robert</fname>
<lname>smith</lname>
<sal>1000</sal>
<job>engineer</job>
</emp>';
I want to load this xml data into table or pl/sql variables.
Please help me how to do it or please give me an example.
I appreciate the help.

Answer 1

Hi
There are many ways to do it... here just the simpler example I can think on...
SQL&gt; create table xmltab of xmltype;
Table created.
SQL&gt; declare
2 v_doc_text varchar2(4000);
3 begin
4 v_doc_text :=
5 '&lt;emp&gt;
6 &lt;empno no="3"&gt;1&lt;/empno&gt;
7 &lt;fname&gt;robert&lt;/fname&gt;
8 &lt;lname&gt;smith&lt;/lname&gt;
9 &lt;sal&gt;1000&lt;/sal&gt;
10 &lt;job&gt;engineer&lt;/job&gt;
11 &lt;/emp&gt;';
12 insert into xmltab values (xmltype(v_doc_text));
13 end;
14 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL&gt; select * from xmltab;
SYS_NC_ROWINFO$
&lt;emp&gt;
&lt;empno no="3"&gt;1&lt;/empno&gt;
&lt;fname&gt;robert&lt;/fname&gt;
&lt;lname&gt;smith&lt;/lname&gt;
&lt;sal&gt;1000&lt;/sal&gt;
&lt;job&gt;engineer&lt;/job&gt;
&lt;/emp&gt;
Chris