XML file to oracle via Java

Question

We have written a command line program that receives orders in a number of different formats by email and parses them to a common xml structure. We want to pass this xml document to a PL/SQL procedure that breaks it apart and inserts the elements into different tables. Does anyone know of a straightforward way to pass an xml document to a pl/sql procedure without actually inserting it into a table first? The documents are bigger than a varchar2 so they cannot be passed that way. I've seen references to using a CLOB but they seem (and I could be wrong) to need it saved to a table first.
Any responses are greatly appreciated!!
Carol

Answer 1

This is the code to pass a clob as a parameter to a stored procedure in java
The cs object y the callabelStatement used to call de procedure
byte[] myByte is the bytearray with the xml you want to pass to the database.
Hope it helps
CLOB tempClob=CLOB.createTemporary(this.oConn,true,CLOB.DURATION_CALL);
tempClob.open(CLOB.MODE_READWRITE);
OutputStream outClob =tempClob.getAsciiOutputStream();
byte[] myByte = null;//(the byte stremof your xml)
outClob.write(myByte);
outClob.flush();
outClob.close();
cs.setObject(index,tempClob);