XML Query error

Question

I create a table like:
CREATE TABLE person_data (
person_id NUMBER(3),
person_data XMLTYPE);
Then I insert some data:
INSERT INTO person_data
(person_id, person_data)
VALUES
(1, XMLTYPE('
<PDRecord>
<PDName>Daniel Morgan</PDName>
<PDDOB>12/1/1951</PDDOB>
<PDEmail>[email protected]</PDEmail>
</PDRecord>')
INSERT INTO person_data
(person_id, person_data)
VALUES
(2, XMLTYPE('
<PDRecord>
<PDName>Jack Cline</PDName>
<PDDOB>5/17/1949</PDDOB>
<PDEmail>[email protected]</PDEmail>
</PDRecord>')
INSERT INTO person_data
(person_id, person_data)
VALUES
(3, XMLTYPE('
<PDRecord>
<PDName>Caleb Small</PDName>
<PDDOB>1/1/1960</PDDOB>
<PDEmail>[email protected]</PDEmail>
</PDRecord>')
COMMIT;
Then I do query:
SELECT person_id, XMLQuery (
'for $i in /PDRecord
where $i /PDName = "Daniel Morgan"
order by $i/PDName
return $i/PDName'
passing by value person_data
RETURNING CONTENT) XMLData
FROM person_data;
I got error : ORA-00907: missing right parenthesis
What is wrong here
Thanks
Charles

Answer 1

OK ... I will keep trying.
The query below does not error out on missing parenthesis
SELECT person_id, XMLQuery (
'for $i in /PDRecord
where $i /PDName = ' || '''' || 'Daniel Morgan' || '''' || '
order by $i /PDName
return $i /PDName
passing by value person_data
RETURNING CONTENT') XMLData
FROM person_data
The last single quote I think should be after the word CONTENT
But XMLQuery seems to be defined in 10.2 and I don't have 10.2 to test the query against.
Can you run the above query against 10.2 and see if it works now?
Shakti
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