Oracle 10g: Extract data (select) from XML (CLOB Type)

Question

I\'m new in Oracle and I\'ve - maybe trivial - a problem in a select. (I\'m using Oracle 10g Express Edition).

I\'ve a DB with a field CLOB: mytab.xml This column have a

Answer 1

You can achieve with below queries

1. select extract(xmltype(xml), '//fax/text()').getStringVal() from mytab;

2. select extractvalue(xmltype(xml), '//fax') from mytab;