Delete Empty tag from xmltype oracle

Question

i want try to delete the empty tag from xmltype. I Have generate the below xml from oracle type. In the collection few elements does not have values so i generated with empty ta

Answer 1

Use DELETEXML and look for the XPath //*[not(text())][not(*)] to find elements that contain no text and no children:

SQL Fiddle

Oracle 11g R2 Schema Setup:

CREATE TABLE table_name ( xml ) AS
SELECT XMLTYPE( '

  9999
  S
  Test Location 
  08 
   
   
   

' ) FROM DUAL;

Query 1:

SELECT DELETEXML(
         xml,
         '//*[not(text())][not(*)]'
       ).getStringVal()
FROM   table_name

Results:

|                                                                                            DELETEXML(XML,'//*[NOT(TEXT())][NOT(*)]').GETSTRINGVAL() |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 9999STest Location08  |