Write / store xml data in Xe and retrieve stored data using pl/sql

Hi to all,
i'm searching a tutorial on:
A - how to write / store xml data in Xe and retrieve stored data using pl/sql
I don't want to use other technologies, because i use htmldb and my best practice is with pl/sql.
I was reading an ebook (quite old maybe) however it's about oracle 9 and it's talking about xmltype:
1 - I don't understand if this is a user type (clob/varchar) or it's integrated in Oracle 9 however i will read it (it's chapter 3 titled Using Oracle xmldb).
Please dont'reply here: i would be glad if someone can suggest me a good tutorial / pdf to achieve task A in Oracle XE.
Thanx

Thank you very much Carl,
However my fault is that i've not tried to create the table via sql plus.
Infact i was wrong thinking that oracle sql developer allows me to create an xmltype column via the create table tool.
however with a ddl script like the following the table was created successfully.
create table example1
keyvalue varchar2(10) primary key,
xmlcolumn xmltype
Thank you very much for your link.
Message was edited by:
Marcello Nocito

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I found the mistakes I made and I corrected them. The newly revised/corrected code is:
USE OPENXMLtesting1
GO
With XmlFile (Contents) AS (
SELECT CONVERT (XML, BulkColumn)
FROM OPENROWSET (BULK 'C:\Temp\books.xml', SINGLE_BLOB) AS XmlData
SELECT *
FROM XmlFile
GO
It worked: Results
Contents
1 <catalog><book.id="bk101"><author>Gambardella.M...
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Thanks,
Scott Chang

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1. Excel File is on My PC.
2. And I want to write a Stored Procedure or Package to do that.
3. DataBase is on Other Server. Client-Server Environment.
4. I am Using Toad or PlSql developer tool.

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Note: This directory is on the server.
2. Grant read,write on directory directory_object_name to username;
You can find out the directory_object_name value from dba_directories view if you are using the system user account.
3. Logon as the user as mentioned above.
Sample code read plain text file code, you can modify this code to suit your need (i.e. read a csv file)
function getData(p_filename in varchar2,
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) RETURN VARCHAR2 is
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--declare a buffer to read text data
input_buffer varchar2(4000);
begin
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input_file := utl_file.fopen(p_filepath, p_filename, 'R');
utl_file.get_line(input_file, input_buffer);
--debug
--dbms_output.put_line(input_buffer);
utl_file.fclose(input_file);
--return data
return input_buffer;
end;
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Can Data Pump be used to export data, using a SQL query which is doing a join between 3 tables ?
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Ashish

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Regards

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DECLARE
firstname varchar2(200) := 'cccc&a p o s;dddd'; ---> Please remove spaces between a p o s. Combine them as apos
lastname varchar2(200) := 'eeee';
BEGIN
dbms_output.put_line('Before changing : firstname :' || firstname);
dbms_output.put_line('After changing: firstname :' || replace(LastName, "'" , "'") );
END;
When I run this in sqlplus, I see:
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Enter value for apos:
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