XML-XSQL-XML

Question

I would appreciate any advice on how to tackle this situation.
We have an XML document. We want to pull one element out of each rowset in this document and put it into XSQL (e.g., satellite_number). While in XSQL we want to pull all the matching data for that satellite number from our Oracle database, which should create another XML document we intend to pass on.
However, we don't want to use a form to send the parameter to the XSQL and we'd prefer to send all the satellite numbers to XSQL in one string.
If I read the release notes correctly, the new version of XSQL can pull in a parameter from a session variable, which should help us get the data in there.
Can XSQL also parse through the parameter string, (e.g., 20455, 27566, 45677) in order to select from the database to match each number? We want to have the output in one XML document rather than a separate one for each satellite number.
Thank you for any assistance you can provide.

Answer 1

If you have a comma-separated list of
numbers in a parameter, you can do:
<xsql:query>
select a,b,c
from yourtable
where id in ( {@theparam} )
</xsql:query>and this will return all rows
matching any id in the comma-separated list.