XML_ALIAS INFO HELP

Question

I have the data in clob which has the parent_id and their child information is stored as ALIAS.How do I read this child information from the alias.
I have tried using the extract function but I will get the empty string but it has the values....How do I read this ALIAS info ?Any one can help me in this regard...
I will give the example as dept and emp
Data looks like the following
select d.deptno,'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'||xmlagg(xmlelement("EMPDATA",xmlelement("EMPNO",e.empno),
xmlelement("ENAME",e.ename))).getclobval() as "EMPINFO" from scott.dept d,scott.emp e where d.deptno=e.deptno group by d.deptno
DEPTNO EMPINFO
10 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><EMPDATA><EMPNO>7782</EMPNO><ENAME>CLARK</
ENAME></EMPDATA><EMPDATA><EMPNO>7839</EMPNO><ENAME>KING</ENAME></EMPDATA><EMPDAT
A><EMPNO>7934</EMPNO><ENAME>MILLER</ENAME></EMPDATA>
20 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><EMPDATA><EMPNO>7369</EMPNO><ENAME>SMITH</
ENAME></EMPDATA><EMPDATA><EMPNO>7902</EMPNO><ENAME>FORD</ENAME></EMPDATA><EMPDAT
A><EMPNO>7876</EMPNO><ENAME>ADAMS</ENAME></EMPDATA><EMPDATA><EMPNO>7788</EMPNO><
ENAME>SCOTT</ENAME></EMPDATA><EMPDATA><EMPNO>7566</EMPNO><ENAME>JONES</ENAME></E
MPDATA>
30 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><EMPDATA><EMPNO>7499</EMPNO><ENAME>ALLEN</
DEPTNO EMPINFO
ENAME></EMPDATA><EMPDATA><EMPNO>7698</EMPNO><ENAME>BLAKE</ENAME></EMPDATA><EMPDA
TA><EMPNO>7654</EMPNO><ENAME>MARTIN</ENAME></EMPDATA><EMPDATA><EMPNO>7844</EMPNO
><ENAME>TURNER</ENAME></EMPDATA><EMPDATA><EMPNO>7900</EMPNO><ENAME>JAMES</ENAME>
</EMPDATA><EMPDATA><EMPNO>7521</EMPNO><ENAME>WARD</ENAME></EMPDATA>
Now I would like to read each alias information for that particular deptno and store it in the child table.
I am getting this result...
SQL> select xmltype(empdata).extract('/DEPTDATA/alias/EMPNO/text()').getstringval() from test_data;
XMLTYPE(EMPDATA).EXTRACT('/DEPTDATA/ALIAS/EMPNO/TEXT()').GETSTRINGVAL()
778278397934
73697902787677887566
749976987654784479007521
SQL> select xmltype(empdata).extract('/DEPTDATA/alias/ENAME/text()').getstringval() from test_data;
XMLTYPE(EMPDATA).EXTRACT('/DEPTDATA/ALIAS/ENAME/TEXT()').GETSTRINGVAL()
CLARKKINGMILLER
SMITHFORDADAMSSCOTTJONES
ALLENBLAKEMARTINTURNERJAMESWARD
But I need the data for each corresponding empno as row...
DEPTNO DNAME EMPNO ENAME
10 Accounting 7782 CLARK
Can any one help how do I get this alias information for each deptno ...
Thanks for your time...
Nirup

Answer 1

babo_ya,
Thank you for the reply. I have the array loading all the
attributes (both Image paths and text captions) as objects. I
checked the array data and it returned 16 objects, so that was how
I knew it loaded them. What I need now is to access the text
objects in a specific location in the array (let's use "P" as the
variable for the location). I then need to load that text into a
textbox on the stage. Can anyone help me?
Thank you,
Armo