XQuery all docs in an XMLType column?

Question

I created the following table:
create table security(sdoc XMLType)
I inserted xml files:
insert into security values (xmltype(?))
Now I want to query the xml docs using XQuery.
Is there a way to query all xml docs in a XMLType column with an XQuery expression at once?
Like:
for $i in function(sdoc)
where $i/Symbol = "ABCD"
return $i
Is there a function that returns an XML Sequence that consist of all docs in the XMLType column? Or do I have to adopt the query tuple by tuple?
I looked in the 10g Release 2 documentation and found the function XMLQuery, but my understanding was that the XMLQuery-function only takes one tuple (one doc). Is that right?
I'm using JDBC to connect to the database. Do you have a hint how I can use the XQuery inside XMLQuery in my case?
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

thx for your help!! But I still have a problem.
I created an XMLType table:
create table security of xmltype
I inserted 10 xml docs:
insert into security values(xmltype(?))
The xml docs are like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<Security id="10000">
<Symbol>ATRK</Symbol>
<Name>@Track Communications, Inc.</Name>
<ShortName>ATRK</ShortName>
<SecurityType>Stock</SecurityType>
<SecurityInformation><StockInformation><Sector>Healthcare</Sector>
<Industry>Constr.-Supplies&amp;Fixtures</Industry>
<Industry>BusinessServices</Industry>
<Industry>Auto&amp;TruckManufacturers</Industry>
<Industry>FoodProcessing</Industry>
<Industry>OilWellServices&amp;Equipment</Industry>
<Industry>Oil&amp;Gas-Integrated</Industry>
<Category Capitalization="Large" Class="Blend"></Category>
<OutstShares>221841392</OutstShares>
</StockInformation>
<Description>
</Description>
</SecurityInformation>
<Price><LastTrade>91.5358</LastTrade>
<Ask>92.1646</Ask>
<Bid>91.2767</Bid>
<Price50DayAvg>105.3278</Price50DayAvg>
<Price200DayAvg>96.2106</Price200DayAvg>
<PriceToday><PreviousClose>91.5358</PreviousClose>
<Open>94.6341</Open>
<High>99.3516</High>
<Low>93.8742</Low>
</PriceToday>
<Price52week><Price52week-low>93.8742</Price52week-low>
<Price52week-low-date>2004-09-10</Price52week-low-date>
<Price52week-high>105.3278</Price52week-high>
<Price52week-high-date>2004-08-01</Price52week-high-date>
</Price52week>
</Price>
<PE>20.38</PE>
<Yield>6.95</Yield>
<DivPerShare>4.75</DivPerShare>
</Security>
But when I run the query:
Select xmlquery('for $i in ora:view("security")/Security/Symbol return $i' returning content).extract('/*') RESULT from security
I'm getting this:
<Symbol>TDSC</Symbol>
<Symbol>ATRK</Symbol>
<Symbol>OIIM</Symbol>
<Symbol>CTAC</Symbol>
<Symbol>FLWS</Symbol>
<Symbol>ATTY</Symbol>
<Symbol>FCCY</Symbol>
<Symbol>SRCE</Symbol>
<Symbol>TFSM</Symbol>
<Symbol>COMS</Symbol>
<Symbol>TDSC</Symbol>
<Symbol>ATRK</Symbol>
<Symbol>OIIM</Symbol>
<Symbol>CTAC</Symbol>
<Symbol>FLWS</Symbol>
<Symbol>ATTY</Symbol>
<Symbol>FCCY</Symbol>
<Symbol>SRCE</Symbol>
<Symbol>TFSM</Symbol>
<Symbol>COMS</Symbol>
<Symbol>TDSC</Symbol>
<Symbol>ATRK</Symbol>
<Symbol>OIIM</Symbol>
<Symbol>CTAC</Symbol>
<Symbol>FLWS</Symbol>
<Symbol>ATTY</Symbol>
<Symbol>FCCY</Symbol>
<Symbol>SRCE</Symbol>
<Symbol>TFSM</Symbol>
<Symbol>COMS</Symbol>
<Symbol>TDSC</Symbol>
<Symbol>ATRK</Symbol>
<Symbol>OIIM</Symbol>
<Symbol>CTAC</Symbol>
<Symbol>FLWS</Symbol>
<Symbol>ATTY</Symbol>
<Symbol>FCCY</Symbol>
<Symbol>SRCE</Symbol>
<Symbol>TFSM</Symbol>
<Symbol>COMS</Symbol>
<Symbol>TDSC</Symbol>
<Symbol>ATRK</Symbol>
<Symbol>OIIM</Symbol>
<Symbol>CTAC</Symbol>
<Symbol>FLWS</Symbol>
<Symbol>ATTY</Symbol>
<Symbol>FCCY</Symbol>
<Symbol>SRCE</Symbol>
<Symbol>TFSM</Symbol>
<Symbol>COMS</Symbol>
<Symbol>TDSC</Symbol>
<Symbol>ATRK</Symbol>
<Symbol>OIIM</Symbol>
<Symbol>CTAC</Symbol>
<Symbol>FLWS</Symbol>
<Symbol>ATTY</Symbol>
<Symbol>FCCY</Symbol>
<Symbol>SRCE</Symbol>
<Symbol>TFSM</Symbol>
<Symbol>COMS</Symbol>
<Symbol>TDSC</Symbol>
<Symbol>ATRK</Symbol>
<Symbol>OIIM</Symbol>
<Symbol>CTAC</Symbol>
<Symbol>FLWS</Symbol>
<Symbol>ATTY</Symbol>
<Symbol>FCCY</Symbol>
<Symbol>SRCE</Symbol>
<Symbol>TFSM</Symbol>
<Symbol>COMS</Symbol>
<Symbol>TDSC</Symbol>
<Symbol>ATRK</Symbol>
<Symbol>OIIM</Symbol>
<Symbol>CTAC</Symbol>
<Symbol>FLWS</Symbol>
<Symbol>ATTY</Symbol>
<Symbol>FCCY</Symbol>
<Symbol>SRCE</Symbol>
<Symbol>TFSM</Symbol>
<Symbol>COMS</Symbol>
<Symbol>TDSC</Symbol>
<Symbol>ATRK</Symbol>
<Symbol>OIIM</Symbol>
<Symbol>CTAC</Symbol>
<Symbol>FLWS</Symbol>
<Symbol>ATTY</Symbol>
<Symbol>FCCY</Symbol>
<Symbol>SRCE</Symbol>
<Symbol>TFSM</Symbol>
<Symbol>COMS</Symbol>
<Symbol>TDSC</Symbol>
<Symbol>ATRK</Symbol>
<Symbol>OIIM</Symbol>
<Symbol>CTAC</Symbol>
<Symbol>FLWS</Symbol>
<Symbol>ATTY</Symbol>
<Symbol>FCCY</Symbol>
<Symbol>SRCE</Symbol>
<Symbol>TFSM</Symbol>
<Symbol>COMS</Symbol>
10 times the expected result. But it makes sense since I have 10 rows, I get the xquery result for each row. Is there way to get it only once??
I translated the xquery into sql using extract (extractValue):
Select extract(object_value, '/Security/Symbol')
From security
And I'm getting the expected result: only one time the above result. But I don't want to translate all of my xqueries.
thx in advance!!