Parsing XML with unknown namespaces in Oracle SQL

Question

I\'m having trouble with Oracle SQL and XMLs.

I\'ll be getting loads of clobs of well-formed XML data from an external system to parse, interpret and fill some tables wi

Answer 1

I know this is pretty old, but I spotted it today and remembered the pain I experienced trying to deal with namespaced XML. My solution was to strip out the namespaces with an XSLT transform and process it as plain old XML. The function I used to do this is:

function remove_namespace( i_xml in xmltype )
  return xmltype
is
  v_xml xmltype default i_xml;
  v_xsl varchar2(32767);
begin
  v_xsl := '
        
        
        
          
          
          
          
            
            
            
              
                
              
            
          
         
         
         
         ';
  return v_xml.transform(xmltype(v_xsl));
end;