Xml database error

Question

Create a table employee having (dept_id : number, employee_spec : XMLType).
The employee_spec is a schema with
attributes emp id, name, email, acc_no, managerEmail, dateOf Joning.
Insert 10 tuples into employee table.Fire the following queries on XML database.
a) Retrieve the names of employee.
b) Retrieve the acc_no of employees.
c) Retrieve the names,acc_no, email of employees.
d) Update the 3rd record from the table and display the name of an employee.
e) Delete 4 th record from the table.
SQL> connect hr/tiger@bom4;
Connected.
SQL> create table employee
2 (
3 dept_id number(8),
4 employee_spec sys.xmltype
5 );
Table created.
SQL>
SQL> INSERT INTO employee VALUES
2 (
3 100,
4 xmltype(
5 '<employees>
6 <emp id="1">
7 <name>abhijeet gole</name>
8 <email>[email protected]</email>
9 <acc_no>111</acc_no>
10 <dateOfJoining>1994-11-16</dateOfJoining>
11 </emp>
12 </employees>'))
13 ;
xmltype(
ERROR at line 4:
ORA-00904: invalid column name
SQL> INSERT INTO employee VALUES
2 (
3 100,
4 sys.XMLTYPE( '<employees>
5 <emp id="1">
6 <name>abhijeet gole</name>
7 <email>[email protected]</email>
8 <acc_no>111</acc_no>
9 <dateOfJoining>1994-11-16</dateOfJoining>
10 </emp>
11 </employees>'))
12 ;
sys.XMLTYPE( '<employees>
ERROR at line 4:
ORA-22876: this user-defined type is not allowed or it cannot be used in this
context

Answer 1

Yep, works fine on 10.2...
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
  1  create table employee
  2  (
  3  dept_id number(8),
  4  employee_spec xmltype
  5* )
SQL> /
Table created.
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
  1  INSERT INTO employee VALUES
  2  (
  3  100,
  4  xmltype(
  5  '<employees>
  6  <emp id="1">
  7  <name>abhijeet gole</name>
  8  <email>[email protected]</email>
  9  <acc_no>111</acc_no>
10  <dateOfJoining>1994-11-16</dateOfJoining>
11  </emp>
12* </employees>'))
SQL> /
1 row created.
SQL>What version of SQL*Plus are you using? Ensure that it's up to date with the database version.