Xml parsing error at insert stmt.

Question

my xml file having data like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<flexcube>
   <contractStatus>     
          <system>TRESTEL</system>        <accessKey>eDealer</accessKey><password>eDealer</password>
          <uuid>eDealer</uuid>        <sequenceNumber>202980100</sequenceNumber>
          <sourceAddress>M@1129800ternal@111698@FX@1</sourceAddress>
        <signature>FEDCBA98765432100123456789ABCDEF</signature>     
       <contractRef>1180100</contractRef>        <branch>018</branch>    
   </contractStatus>
</flexcube>
<flexcube>
   <contractStatus>     
          <system>GRVKSEL</system>        <accessKey>eDealer</accessKey><password>eDealer</password>
          <uuid>eDealer</uuid>        <sequenceNumber>206981112980100</sequenceNumber>
          <sourceAddress>M@1129800002nal@1112980100@20698@FX@1</sourceAddress>
        <signature>FEDCBA98765432100123456789ABCDEF</signature>     
       <contractRef>80100</contractRef>        <branch>018</branch>    
   </contractStatus>
</flexcube>
<flexcube>
   <contractStatus>     
          <system>UTIOSEL</system>        <accessKey>eDealer</accessKey><password>eDealer</password>
          <uuid>eDealer</uuid>        <sequenceNumber>206981112980100</sequenceNumber>
          <sourceAddress>M@2011-10-ternal@1112980100@20698@FX@1</sourceAddress>
        <signature>FEDCBA98765432100123456789ABCDEF</signature>     
       <contractRef>1112980100</contractRef>        <branch>018</branch>    
   </contractStatus>
</flexcube>
means having 3 records
i want to insert all three records into the table.
below stmt not working..
any solutions??
INSERT INTO test_1 (q1, q2, q3, q4)
      SELECT q1, q2, q3, q4
    FROM XMLTable(flexcube/contractStatus'
           passing xmltype(bfilename(p_directory, p_filename), nls_charset_id('AL32UTF8'))
            columns q1 varchar2(200)  path 'system'
                  , q2            varchar2(500)  path 'accessKey'
                  , q3      varchar2(100) path 'password'
                  , q4               varchar2(800) path 'contractRef'
          )  ;

Answer 1

Hi,
below stmt not working..Any helpful error message you can give us?
Anyway... I see two problems here :
1) The minor one is the obvious syntax error here (no opening quote), but it's probably a typo :
FROM XMLTable(flexcube/contractStatus'2) The major one is that your file doesn't contain a valid XML document (no single root), but an XML fragment instead and as such cannot possess any XML prolog.
Had the content of your file really been this (no prolog) :
<flexcube>
   <contractStatus>     
          <system>TRESTEL</system>        <accessKey>eDealer</accessKey><password>eDealer</password>
          <uuid>eDealer</uuid>        <sequenceNumber>202980100</sequenceNumber>
          <sourceAddress>M@1129800ternal@111698@FX@1</sourceAddress>
        <signature>FEDCBA98765432100123456789ABCDEF</signature>     
       <contractRef>1180100</contractRef>        <branch>018</branch>    
   </contractStatus>
</flexcube>
<flexcube>
   <contractStatus>     
          <system>GRVKSEL</system>        <accessKey>eDealer</accessKey><password>eDealer</password>
          <uuid>eDealer</uuid>        <sequenceNumber>206981112980100</sequenceNumber>
          <sourceAddress>M@1129800002nal@1112980100@20698@FX@1</sourceAddress>
        <signature>FEDCBA98765432100123456789ABCDEF</signature>     
       <contractRef>80100</contractRef>        <branch>018</branch>    
   </contractStatus>
</flexcube>
<flexcube>
   <contractStatus>     
          <system>UTIOSEL</system>        <accessKey>eDealer</accessKey><password>eDealer</password>
          <uuid>eDealer</uuid>        <sequenceNumber>206981112980100</sequenceNumber>
          <sourceAddress>M@2011-10-ternal@1112980100@20698@FX@1</sourceAddress>
        <signature>FEDCBA98765432100123456789ABCDEF</signature>     
       <contractRef>1112980100</contractRef>        <branch>018</branch>    
   </contractStatus>
</flexcube> this would have worked :
SQL> SELECT q1, q2, q3, q4
  2  FROM XMLTable('/flexcube/contractStatus'
  3         passing xmlparse( content
  4                           dbms_xslprocessor.read2clob(
  5                             'TEST_DIR'
  6                           , 'flexcubes.xml'
  7                           , nls_charset_id('AL32UTF8')
  8                           ) )
  9         columns q1 varchar2(200) path 'system'
10               , q2 varchar2(500) path 'accessKey'
11               , q3 varchar2(100) path 'password'
12               , q4 varchar2(800) path 'contractRef'
13       )
14  ;
Q1          Q2          Q3          Q4
TRESTEL     eDealer     eDealer     1180100     
GRVKSEL     eDealer     eDealer     80100       
UTIOSEL     eDealer     eDealer     1112980100  
                                                 If you have control over this incoming file, I suggest you fix its content by either adding a root element, then you can keep the prolog and use your first query (after correcting the typo), or removing the prolog entirely and use the above.