XML query problem

Question

hello
i have xml DATA AS UNDER , i want TO GET alll THE DATA BETWEEN <eob> </eob> tags.
CREATE TABLE XMLTABLE (ID NUMBER, xml_data XMLTYPE);
INSERT INTO XMLTABLE
VALUES (1,
XMLTYPE
(' <eob>
<eobHeader>THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT should be included IN your STATEMENT OF Benefits OR appear WITH your CHECK endorsement:</eobHeader>
<eobText>Paid IN accordance WITH rate agreement.</eobText>
<eobFooter>FOR this discount TO APPLYthis claim.</eobFooter>
</eob>' ) );
it shoud display me AS UNDER. plase HELP me
THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT should be included IN your STATEMENT OF Benefits OR appear WITH your CHECK endorsement:
Paid IN accordance WITH rate agreement
FOR this discount TO APPLYthis claim.
i trid this but does NOT WORK
SELECT EXTRACTVALUE (xml_data, '/eob/eobHeader')
FROM XMLTABLE
thank you in advance

Answer 1

Your SQL statement asked only for the contents of the eobHeader node. The other two pieces of information are in sibling nodes so they are ignored by your SQL statement as you saw.
Doing the following gets each piece of information as a column
SELECT EXTRACTVALUE (xml_data, '/eob/eobHeader') hdr,
       EXTRACTVALUE (xml_data, '/eob/eobText') Txt,
       EXTRACTVALUE (xml_data, '/eob/eobFooter') Ftr
FROM XMLTABLEThe following is one option to make that into one string if you are really wanting the SQL to do the formatting
SELECT EXTRACTVALUE (xml_data, '/eob/eobHeader') || chr(10) ||
       EXTRACTVALUE (xml_data, '/eob/eobText') || chr(10) ||
       EXTRACTVALUE (xml_data, '/eob/eobFooter')
FROM XMLTABLE