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 try creating DBMS_XMLPARSER.parser object from the CLOB XML and get a DBMS_XMLDOM.DOMDocument object from it. Then use DBMS_XMLDOM package methods to get the value of any node.

   xml_            CLOB := 'X';
   p               DBMS_XMLPARSER.parser;
   doc_            DBMS_XMLDOM.DOMDocument;

      -- Convert the CLOB into a XML-document
      P := DBMS_XMLPARSER.newparser();
      -- Parse the clob and get the XML-document
      DBMS_XMLPARSER.parseclob(p, xml_);
      doc_ := DBMS_XMLPARSER.getDocument(p);

Then use the below methods to extract node value

DBMS_XMLDOM.getElementsByTagName(doc_, 'NodeName'); DBMS_XMLDOM.GetNodeValue(node_obj_);

Refer more about DBMS_XMLDOM methods here.