XML export of entire database

Question

Hi
I'm trying to export an entire database into a single XML document. At the moment, I can only do it one table at a time, using the following pl/sql procedure:
create or replace procedure "download"
is
queryCtx DBMS_XMLquery.ctxType;
result1 CLOB;
begin
queryCtx := DBMS_XMLQuery.newContext('select * from table1');
result1 := DBMS_XMLQuery.getXML(queryCtx);
--download the file
owa_util.mime_header('text/xml', FALSE);
htp.p('Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="Document.xml"');
owa_util.http_header_close;
htp.print(result1);
end
Is there any way to select all information from all tables and put it in the one document?
Thanks in advance,
Dave

Answer 1

David,
Are you trying to export user (SYS and SYSTEM) as well into an XML file? or are you trying to get all of one schema into a XML file?
One possibility:
You could create an interim table which contains the tablenames.
create table interim as select table_name from dba_tables where owner = 'OWNERNAME';
Then in your program read this interimtable into a cursor and loop through it using the variable in place of your hardcoded 'select * from table1' in the DBMS_XMLQuery.newContext
You would then need to append result1 to result1 plus new query context for the clob.