Using XMLDOM to process document in XML DB

I am new to XML and especially XML DB which I however see as an excellent platform on which to base XML based solutions. I have a specific question and apologise beforehand should any of my assumptions be incorrect.
I wish to create an application which from a number of XML fragments, together with rules governing the behaviour of the fragments (insertion points, overwrite rules etc) are merged together to finally leave me with a complete and valid XML document in XML DB.
I thought at first that I could use DBMS_XMLDOM to perform this low level processing required. I have however not managed to understand how this can be used together with XMLDB. I am reluctant to use XMLDOM without XMLDB as I am afraid that I will surpass the limits in XML document size apparently imposed by XMLDOM.
I see a solution where I create a schema based resource in XML DB containing the initial XML structure and then processing any number of the above mentioned fragments to finaly be left with a complete XML document.
Can I use XMLDOM to do this or am I barking up the wrong tree?
I would be grateful for any input on techniques that I can apply to perform elementary search/replace/insert on an XML document which I am, from PLSQL, compiling.
Thanks
Hans Christiansen

Hi
The size of the documents I want to compose are expected vary from a few Kb to 1 or 2 Gb! In a FAQ found somewhere on OTN there was an entry which mentioned that somebody was having trouble with a 50Mb XML document. The recommendation was to use SAX but I am under the impression that this is more useful when the processing is of a more sequential nature.
The main thread of my question is to gain clarity in the most suitable technique to use when actualy compsing the XML.
What I want to do is:
Create resource (XML document) in XML DB.
Loop through XML fragments together with rules:
For each fragment process according to rules and insert
fragment or update existing XML based on fragment contents.
At the end of the loop the XML document is complete and ready for further processing.
XMLDOM seems to give me the tools to do this but I am unsure of how to do this and have XMLDOM work directly against the contents in the resource controlled by XML DB (making use of possible indexes and the scalable nature of XMLDB). I get the feeling that if I simply read the XML from XMLDB resource into a DOM document I am still using the memory based representation of the XML until I write the XML back to XMLDB - is this a correct assumption.
Alternatively is it the functionality offered by XPath, extract(), updatexml() etc. that I should be looking at?
Does this make my question more understandable?
Hans

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l_cust_ord := l_xmltype.extract('/MobileInventoryResponse/message/ship-advice/header/order-header/customer-order-number/text()').getStringVal();
dbms_output.put_line(l_cust_ord);
dbms_xmldom.freeDocument(l_xml_doc);
end;
/

In the following code
l_nodelist := dbms_xmldom.getelementsbytagname(l_xml_doc, 'purchase-order-number');
l_node := dbms_xmldom.item(l_nodelist, 0); -- gets first item from listYou need to understand what the second parm on the .item call does. See [dbms_xmldom.item|http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/appdev.102/b14258/d_xmldom.htm#i1126138]
The nodelist is a 0 based array of information and you are only requesting to pull the node info in the first array position. So to get the info in the second array position, you need to use ", 1)". You can also use .getLength and a loop to parse through everything in the node list.

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I am getting the following message when I try to open a Word (docx) Document on my iPhone 6 running iOS 8 (latest build at 08/10/14) from within an email account:
"Office Open XML word processing document"
I have tried installing Microsoft Office Mobile and a third part App called Documents.
I have been sent different emails in DocX format (.docx) and I can not open any of them.
I have tried pages on my iPhone and that does not work eaither.
I can however open PDF documents.
I have rebooted/restarted the iPhone twice.
I have a coleage with an iPhone 5 with iOS 8 and they have the same problem.
I have another coleage who has an iPhone 4 on an older version of iOS and theirs works fine.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Anthony

I have had this problem for a while now. The only thing that worked is:
On your iOS Device:
Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content & Settings
Once it restores, connect to iTunes
do not Restore from Back Up (this doesn't work) - instead select Set up as New Device
This resolved the problem opening all mail attachments (PDF, .docx, .doc, .pptx, .ppt, .xlsx, etc.)
Good luck.

How can i use a xsd while generating my xml document in oracle?

Hi, how can i use a xsd while building my xml document query, so i know the xml was built properly?
Cheers.

Hi,
Do you want to validate your xml against xsd?
Read this
validating
There are some bugs also, for example xml is invalid but no errors when calling schemaValidate()
Ants

I'm trying to read some XML data from temperature logger over my network. I'm using LabView version 2009 sp1. I'm using the URL Get Document Vi. It works fine when using Internet sites like google or foxnews etc...

I'm trying to read some XML data from temperature logger over my network. I'm using LabView version 2009 sp1. I'm using the URL Get Document Vi. It works fine when using Internet sites like google or foxnews etc...
When I use it with my temperature logger most of the time I get an Error 66...but some times it does work and actually retrieves the document.
I can use the same address "http://172.22.21.68/XMLfeed.rb" (Internet Explorer or Google Chrome) in my browser and get a response every time. When accessing from my browser the server in the temperature logger does take around 6 seconds to respond, but it does respond every time.
Is the URL Get Document Vi exceeding a timeout? If so, where can I set it to wait longer?
Attachments:
Error 66.jpg ‏183 KB

It looks like the TCP Buffered Read has a 2.5 sec timeout, I believe that is where I had trouble as well. Try creating your own URL Get HTTP Doc vi in which you call URL Get Document in normal mode, with an appropriate number of characters to fetch (enough characters so that you capture all the important data in the XML file).
Attachments:
ex1.PNG ‏33 KB

Post processing PDF to XML.

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Post-processing PDF into XML.
Compton MacKenzie - 08:48am Oct 29, 2008 Pacific
Hi,
Sorry for the basic question... We want to have users fill out a fillable PDF form using Aacrobat Reader and then upload it to a web page. Once we get the PDF, we need to extract the data that they have entered. Short of using LiveCycle Data Services (not currently feasible as we have no Java presence on our server platform), is there any API that I can use to extract the data or convert the PDF to XML. I understand that it is possible to export XML using the Acrobat client (and it might be possible to script this with COM) but I don't think this would work reliably in a server environment.
(We need both the PDF and the data as the PDF will contain an electronically captured image of a customer's signature and need to preserve the actual image of the document.)
Any suggestions?
Thanks!

There are server based products under the LiveCycle banner for this but they all run on a Java based app server. You can use a turn key install where the app server (JBoss) and a Database (MySql) are provided for you but you need to have the Java SDK present. The LiveCycle servers can run on Windows, Linux, AIX to name a few.
Note that if you script Acrobat to do this on the server you are in violation of your license agreement.

BPE_ADAPTER MESSAGE_NOT_USED Message is not used by any processes

We need some help on BPM flow. We are at it for last 3 days without much progress. We are able to make sync call to same BAPIs and get data without any issue. However, with BPM we have this issue
I am creating the simplest integration scenario as
1.       HTML/HTTP-->BPM (Async)
2.       BPM-->R/3 (Sync)
3.       BPM-->File (Async)
Created all required interfaces and mapping. I have some dummy mapping for first 2 cases. I am able to activate the integration scenario and Integration Process without any error. I am able to import it in integration directory successfully without any error. When I am executing the first async request from HTML client I am invariably end up with an error from sxmb_moni as
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
- 
- <SAP:Error xmlns:SAP="http://sap.com/xi/XI/Message/30" xmlns:SOAP="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" SOAP:mustUnderstand="">
<SAP:Category>XIAdapter</SAP:Category>
<SAP:Code area="BPE_ADAPTER">MESSAGE_NOT_USED</SAP:Code>
<SAP:P1 />
<SAP:P2 />
<SAP:P3 />
<SAP:P4 />
<SAP:AdditionalText />
<SAP:ApplicationFaultMessage namespace="" />
<SAP:Stack>Message is not used by any processes</SAP:Stack>
<SAP:Retry>M</SAP:Retry>
</SAP:Error>
The BPM is not getting invoked. Looking at the trace it shows that there is an error after creating BPE proxy for message as
<Trace level="3" type="T">created BPE proxy for message DE5FB5802F33D3F19373005056A12466</Trace>
</Trace>
</Trace>
- <Trace level="1" type="B" name="CL_XMS_MAIN-WRITE_MESSAGE_LOG_TO_PERSIST">
<Trace level="3" type="T">Persisting message after plsrv call</Trace>
<Trace level="3" type="T">Message-Version = 007</Trace>
<Trace level="3" type="T">Message version 007</Trace>
<Trace level="3" type="T">Pipeline CENTRAL</Trace>
</Trace>
<Trace level="3" type="System_Error">Error exception return from pipeline processing!</Trace>
<Trace level="1" type="B" name="CL_XMS_MAIN-WRITE_MESSAGE_TO_PERSIST" />
What I have checked so far:
1.    I have checked that the developer key is assigned to my user id
2.    Used SWF_XI_CUSTOMIZING to make sure that all the process are green
3.    Used sxi_cache to make sure that the BPM process has return code 0 and also reactivated it numerous times. Also checked activation log and no error there
4.    Used SXMP_ADM_BPEAutomatic BPM Customizing to check all the entries are green
5. There are not any message in sxmb_moni_bpe for my interface shows no message
Input call has:
1.    Sender Service: MFG_BPM_BusinessSystem
2.    Sender Interface: MI_Outbound_Async
3.    Quality Of Service: EO
4.    Sender Name space: Name space
5.    Input XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ns0:BAPI_SALESORDER_GETLIST xmlns:ns0="urn:sap-com:document:sap:rfc:functions">
   <CUSTOMER_NUMBER>0000001000</CUSTOMER_NUMBER>
   <DOCUMENT_DATE/>
   <DOCUMENT_DATE_TO/>
   <MATERIAL/>
   <MATERIAL_EVG>
      <MATERIAL_EXT/>
      <MATERIAL_VERS/>
      <MATERIAL_GUID/>
   </MATERIAL_EVG>
   <PURCHASE_ORDER/>
   <PURCHASE_ORDER_NUMBER/>
   <SALES_ORGANIZATION>1000</SALES_ORGANIZATION>
   <TRANSACTION_GROUP/>
   <SALES_ORDERS>
      <item>
      </item>
   </SALES_ORDERS>
</ns0:BAPI_SALESORDER_GETLIST>
Any clue, help pointer will be of great help. Just beats me, what is wrong!!
Version:
SAP R/3 ECC 6.0
XI 7.0

Hi,
Please check these threads where they have the same issue:
Message is not used by any processes
Error: Message is not used by any processes
Error: BPE_ADAPTER Message not used in any process
Message is not used by any processes
---Satish

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I am trying to create an xml-document containing base64 encoded data by using the xmldom packages on an 8.1.7 DB.
Everthing works o.k. until I try to append data to an DOMCharacterData Node.This is the point where my function always ends up catching an ORA-29532 java.lang.ClassCastException exception
I did a lot of research the last few days but did not find any similar cases.
Does anyone have a solution or can provide hints where to find informations regarding.
Thank you
Edmund
The following function is not exactly the one I am using but it also ends up in an exception!
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RETURN xmldom.DOMDocument
IS
doc                xmldom.DOMDocument;
main_node           xmldom.DOMNode;
root_node           xmldom.DOMNode;
cmd_node           xmldom.DOMNode;
document_node          xmldom.DOMNode;
data_node          xmldom.DOMNode;
data_cont          xmldom.DOMCharacterData;
root_elmt           xmldom.DOMElement;
cmd_elmt          xmldom.DOMElement;
data_elmt               xmldom.DOMElement;
BEGIN
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     xmldom.setAttribute(document_elmt,'archiveid',1);
     xmldom.setAttribute(document_elmt, 'id','');
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     RETURN doc;
END;

Try something like requestScope or backingBeanScope.

Using Non-destructive filter with Nested XML data

Hi,
How do you use Non-destructive filter with Nested XML data?
I am using the non-destructive filter sample with my own xml which is setup to search for the <smc></smcs> in my xml below. But when i test it it only searches the last row of the "smc". How can i make it work so it can search for repeating nodes? or does it have something to with how my xml is setup?
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        <prole>Process role goes here...</prole>
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        // that is set on the data set.
        ds1.filter(null);
        return;
    // Set a filter on the data set that matches any row
    // that begins with the string in the text field.
    var regExpStr = tf.value;
if (!document.getElementById("containsCB").checked)
        regExpStr = "^" + regExpStr;
    var regExp = new RegExp(regExpStr, "i");
    var filterFunc = function(ds, row, rowNumber)
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        return row;
        return null;
    ds1.filter(filterFunc);
function StartFilterTimer()
    if (StartFilterTimer.timerID)
        clearTimeout(StartFilterTimer.timerID);
    StartFilterTimer.timerID = setTimeout(function() { StartFilterTimer.timerID = null; FilterData(); }, 100);
I really need help on this, or are there any other suggestions or samples that might work?
thank you!

I apologize, im using Spry XML Data Set. i guess the best way to describe what im trying to do is, i want to use the Non-desctructive filter sample with the Spry Nested XML Data sample. So with my sample xml on my first post and with the same code non-destructive filter is using, im having trouble trying to search repeating nodes, for some reason it only searches the last node of the repeating nodes. Does that make sense? let me know.
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