Leviter XML DB

A Hitchhhikers Guide Integrating Oracle
XML DB
with 11gR2 and SQL Developer 3.2.2
Coleman Leviter, OCP
Arrow Electronics
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cleviter@ieee.org
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XML Xpath Terminology

XPath is a language for finding information in an XML document. XPath is
used to navigate through elements and attributes in an XML document. The
primary purpose of XPath is to address parts of an XML document.
Shred or extract parts of an XML Document

The XML representation of schema components uses a vocabulary identified
by the namespace name http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema. For brevity,
the text and examples in this specification use the prefix xs: to stand for this
namespace; in practice, any prefix can be used.
//author - All <author> elements in the document.
author/* - All elements that are the children of <author> elements.
author[1] The first <author> element in the current context node.
author[first-name][3] - The third <author> element that has a <first-name>
child.
my:book - The <book> element from the my namespace.
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XML Xpath (shredding) Terminology

EXTRACT(XMLTYPE_instance,XPath_string) or
EXTRACT(XMLTYPE_instance,XPath_string, namespace_string)
EXTRACT (XML) - It applies a VARCHAR2 XPath string and returns an
XMLType instance containing an XML fragment. You can specify an absolute
XPath_string with an initial slash or a relative XPath_string by omitting the
initial slash. If you omit the initial slash, the context of the relative path
defaults to the root node. The optional namespace_string must resolve to a
VARCHAR2 value that specifies a default mapping or namespace mapping
for prefixes, which Oracle Database uses when evaluating the XPath
expression(s).
getClobVal() - Returns a CLOB containing an XML document based on the

contents of the XMLType.
XMLTYPE (CLOB) constructor; convert properly formed CLOB to

XMLTYPE, raises an exception
Oracle9i has a dedicated XML datatype called XMLTYPE. It is made up of a
CLOB to store the original XML data and a number of member functions to
make the data available to SQL.
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XPATH Terminology
VALUE takes as its argument a correlation variable (table alias)
associated with a row of an object table and returns object
instances stored in the object table. The type of the object
instances is the same type as the object table.
Table functions are functions that produce a collection of rows

(either a nested table or a varray) that can be queried like a
physical database table or assigned to a PL/SQL collection
variable. You can use a table function like the name of a
database table, in the FROM clause of a query, or like a column
name in the SELECT list of a query.
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XPATH Terminology
XMLSEQUENCE - XMLSEQUENCE(XMLTYPE_instance)
XMLSEQUENCE operator is used to split multi-value results from
XMLTYPE queries into multiple rows.
The first form takes as input an XMLType instance and returns a

varray of the top-level nodes in the XMLType. This form is effectively
superseded by the SQL/XML standard function XMLTable, which
provides for more readable SQL code. Prior to Oracle Database 10g
Release 2, XMLSequence was used with SQL function TABLE to do
some of what can now be done better with the XMLTable function.
Because XMLSequence returns a collection of XMLType, you can use

this function in a TABLE clause to unnest the collection values into
multiple rows, which can in turn be further processed in the SQL
query.
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Xpath Expression Syntax

XML Document (fully qualified)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <! XML Declaration-->
<root>
<parent>
<child>robot</child>
<child>ball</child>
</parent>
<parent>
<child>airplane</child>
<child>ipod</child>
</parent>
</root>
Expression
Refers to
parent/child[1]
The first <child> of each <parent>.
(parent/child)[1]
The first <child> from the entire set of children of <parent> elements.
parent[1]/child[2]
The second <child> of the first <parent>.
parent/*
All elements that are the children of <parent> elements.
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Namespaces Definition
Why Namespaces http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/
Such documents, containing multiple markup vocabularies, pose problems of
recognition and collision. Software modules need to be able to recognize the
elements and attributes which they are designed to process, even in the face
of "collisions" occurring when markup intended for some other software
package uses the same element name or attribute name.
These considerations require that document constructs should have names
constructed so as to avoid clashes between names from different markup
vocabularies. This specification describes a mechanism, XML namespaces,
which accomplishes this by assigning expanded names to elements and
attributes.
So, in simple terms, its a technique to distinguish two elements with the
same names from each other.
The technique allows one to import (or define) another fully qualified XML
document into an existing one without causing an element name collision.
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XML Namespace Terms

XML Namespaces - The xmlns Attribute
When using prefixes in XML, a so-called namespace for the prefix
must be defined.
The namespace is defined by the xmlns attribute in the start tag of an

element.
The namespace declaration has the following syntax.
xmlns:prefix="URI".
A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a string of characters which

identifies an Internet Resource.
The most common URI is the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) which
identifies an Internet domain address.
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SQL XML Query (SQLX) Terminology
Create an SQL XML query

Defined by ISO/IEC 9075-14:2003 1
XMLAGG() is an aggregate function. It takes a collection of XML
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fragments and returns an aggregated XML document.

XMLELEMENT() takes an element name for identifier, an optional
collection of attributes (XMLATTRIBUTES) for the element, and
arguments that make up the content of the element
XMLFOREST() converts each of its argument parameters to
XML, and then returns an XML fragment that is the concatenation
of these converted arguments.
ISO/IEC 9075-14:2003 defines ways in which Database
Language SQL can be used in conjunction with XML. It defines
ways of importing and storing XML data in an SQL database,
manipulating it within the database and publishing both XML and
conventional SQL-data in XML form
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SQLX Examples Table Contents
(1_1)
SQL> select * from myobject;

THINGS
-----------BALL
KEY
TABLE
FRISBEE
BBQ
SWITCH
QUANTITY PARENT
--------------- -----------2
1
3
1
1
1
4
2
1
2
6
2
6 rows selected.
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SQLX - XMLELEMENT Example
(1_2)
XMLELEMENT() takes an element name for identifier, an optional collection

of attributes for the element, and arguments that make up the content of the
element
1 SELECT XMLELEMENT("thing", XMLATTRIBUTES( obj.quantity AS
"QTY"), obj.things )
2 AS "Object_list"
3* FROM myobject obj
SQL> /
Object_list
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<thing QTY="2">BALL</thing>
<thing QTY="3">KEY</thing>
<thing QTY="1">TABLE</thing>
<thing QTY="4">FRISBEE</thing>
<thing QTY="1">BBQ</thing>
<thing QTY="6">SWITCH</thing>
6 rows selected.
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SQLX - XMLFOREST Example
(1_3)
XMLFOREST() converts each of its argument parameters to XML, and then

returns an XML fragment that is the concatenation of these converted
arguments.
SQL> SELECT XMLFOREST(obj.quantity, obj.things) "Object_list"
2 FROM myobject obj;
Object_list
--------------------------------------------<QUANTITY>2</QUANTITY><THINGS>BALL</THINGS>
<QUANTITY>3</QUANTITY><THINGS>KEY</THINGS>
<QUANTITY>1</QUANTITY><THINGS>TABLE</THINGS>
<QUANTITY>4</QUANTITY><THINGS>FRISBEE</THINGS>
<QUANTITY>1</QUANTITY><THINGS>BBQ</THINGS>
<QUANTITY>6</QUANTITY><THINGS>SWITCH</THINGS>
6 rows selected.
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Prettyprint or Indenting
Formatting Convention for Output

XML Parent Child Relationship
Changes from 10g, 11gR1, 11gR2
SELECT XMLSERIALIZE ( DOCUMENT -line one
(<XML_Document>)
AS CLOB indent ) [<alias>] from dual; -line three
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SQLX - XMLAGG Example
(1_4_3) (Pretty Print)
XMLAGG() is an aggregate function. It takes a collection of XML

fragments and returns an aggregated XML document.
1 SELECT XMLELEMENT("OBJECT",
XMLAGG(XMLELEMENT("Things",
2 obj.things ||' '||obj.quantity ) ORDER BY obj.things)) AS "Object_list"
3 FROM myobject obj
SQL> /
Object_list
------------------------------------------------------------------------<OBJECT><Things>BALL 2</Things><Things>BBQ 1</Things>
<Things>FRISBEE 4</Things><Things>KEY
3</Things><Things>SWITCH 6</Things><Things>TABLE
1</Things></OBJECT>
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XML Document TOAD OUT
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XML SQL Developer OUT
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SQLX Example XMLAGG, XMLATTRIBUTES, Namespace

DECLARE
lcl_obj1
CLOB; lcl_obj2
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CLOB; lcl_full_xml CLOB;
BEGIN
SELECT XMLTYPE.getclobval(XMLELEMENT("obj1:object",
xmlagg(xmlelement("obj1:thing",obj.things) )) )
INTO lcl_obj1 FROM myobject obj WHERE obj.parent = '1';
SELECT XMLTYPE.getclobval(XMLELEMENT("obj2:object",
XMLATTRIBUTES ('http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/obj_2' AS "xmlns:obj2"), /* obj2 */
XMLAGG(xmlelement("obj2:thing",obj.things) ) ) )
INTO lcl_obj2 FROM myobject obj WHERE obj.parent = '2';
SELECT ( '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>' ||
'<ns1:object_group
xmlns:ns1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/sample_namespace_1"
xmlns:obj1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/obj_1">'||
lcl_obj1|| lcl_obj2|| '</ns1:object_group>' )
dbms_output.put_line(lcl_full_xml);
END;
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INTO lcl_full_xml
/* obj1 */
FROM dual;
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XML Namespace Example table contents or in-line
(1_6_1)
Table: my_xml_table;
Column: xmlcol
XMLTYPE
Column: ref_id
NUMBER
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ns1:object_group xmlns:ns1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/sample_namespace_1"
xmlns:obj1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/obj_1">
<obj1:object>
<obj1:thing>ball</obj1:thing>
<obj1:thing>key</obj1:thing>
<obj1:thing>table</obj1:thing>
</obj1:object>
<obj2:object xmlns:obj2="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/obj_2">
<obj2:thing>frisbee</obj2:thing>
<obj2:thing>bbq</obj2:thing>
<obj2:thing>switch</obj2:thing>
</obj2:object>
</ns1:object_group>
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XML XPath Cursor - obtain each row
(1_7)
DECLARE
-- Cursor for parsing objects_group XML
CURSOR obj_cur
IS
SELECT EXTRACT (VALUE
(entire_things),'//*','xmlns:obj1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/obj_1"').getstringval() AS lcl_thing
FROM my_xml_table mxt,
TABLE(xmlsequence(extract(mxt.xmlcol,
'//obj1:thing','xmlns:obj1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/obj_1"'))) entire_things
WHERE mxt.ref_id = 1;
BEGIN
FOR obj_row IN obj_cur
LOOP
dbms_output.put_line('each element thing '|| obj_row.lcl_thing );
END LOOP;
END anonymous_block ;
each element thing <obj1:thing xmlns:obj1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/obj_1">ball</obj1:thing>
each element thing <obj1:thing xmlns:obj1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/obj_1">key</obj1:thing>
each element thing <obj1:thing xmlns:obj1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/obj_1">table</obj1:thing>
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
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XPath all data merged
(1_8)
DECLARE
CURSOR obj_cur
IS
SELECT EXTRACT (VALUE (entire_things),'//*/text()').getstringval () AS
lcl_thing
table(xmlsequence(extract(mxt.xmlcol, '*'))) entire_things
BEGIN
FOR obj_row IN obj_cur LOOP
dbms_output.put_line('each element thing '|| obj_row.lcl_thing );
END LOOP;
SQL> /
each element thing ballkeytablefrisbeebbqswitch
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XML Shredding (XPATH) Example
(1_9)
XML Document
<objects>
<thing>ball</thing>
<thing>key</thing>
<thing>table</thing>
</objects>
--------------------------------------------------------------------- SQLX (XML Query Xpath)

Select value(tab).extract('/*').getStringVal() "This Column"
from table ( XMLSequence(extract (
XMLType('<objects><thing>ball</thing><thing>key</thing><thing>table</thing></objects>'),'/obje
cts/*') ) ) tab;
--------------------------------------------------------------------- Results
This Column
--------------------<thing>ball</thing>
<thing>key</thing>
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XPath Shredding Deux
(1_10)
XML Document
<objects>
<thing>ball</thing>
<thing>key</thing> extract this data item

</objects>
========================================
SQLX (XML Query)
select value(tab).extract('/objects/thing[2]/text()').getStringVal() "This Column"

from table ( XMLSequence(extract (
XMLType('<objects><thing>ball</thing><thing>key</thing><thing>table</thing></objects>'),'*')
) tab;
========================================
Results
This Column
---------------------------------------------------------------------key
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XML Xpath Shredding Namespace Failure 1
(1_11)
SQL> select
value(tab).extract('//obj2:thing/text()','xmlns:obj1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchem
a/obj_1"').getStringVal() "This_Column",
value(tab).extract('//obj1:thing/text()','xmlns:obj1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchem
a/obj_1"').getStringVal() "That_Column"
3 from table ( XMLSequence(extract

4 (XMLType('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><ns1:object_group
5 <obj1:object><obj1:thing>ball</obj1:thing><obj1:thing>key</obj1:thing>
6 <obj1:thing>table</obj1:thing></obj1:object>
7 <obj2:object xmlns:obj2="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/obj_2">
8 <obj2:thing>frisbee</obj2:thing>
9 <obj2:thing>bbq</obj2:thing>
10 <obj2:thing>switch</obj2:thing>
11 </obj2:object>
12 </ns1:object_group>'),'*') ) ) tab;
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XML Xpath Shredding Namespace Failure 2

select
(1_11)
value(tab).extract('//obj2:thing/text()',
'xmlns:obj1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/obj_1"').getStringVal()
"This_Column",
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-31011: XML parsing failed
ORA-19202: Error occurred in XML processing
LPX-00601: Invalid token in: '//obj2:thing/text() ob2 <>

ob1
ORA-06512: at "SYS.XMLTYPE", line 119
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XML XPath Shredding 1 data combined
(1_12)
1 select
value(tab).extract('//obj1:thing/text()','xmlns:obj1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/obj_1"').getStringVal()
"This_Column",
value(tab).extract('//obj1:thing/text()','xmlns:obj1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/obj_1"').getStringVal()
"That_Column"
4 (XMLType('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><ns1:object_group
11 </obj2:object>
12* </ns1:object_group>'),'*')
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) ) tab
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XML XPath Shredding 2 data combined
(1_12)
SQL> col this_column format a20;

SQL> col that_column format a20;
SQL> /
This_Column
That_Column
-------------------- -------------------ballkeytable
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ballkeytable
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XML Example 1
(1_13)
select value(tab).extract('//obj1:thing/text()',
"This_Column",
value(tab).extract('//obj2:thing/text()',
"That_Column"
4
from
table ( XMLSequence(extract
(XMLType('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><ns1:object_group

<obj1:object><obj1:thing>ball</obj1:thing><obj1:thing>key</obj1:thing>
7
<obj1:thing>table</obj1:thing></obj1:object>
10
11
12
</obj2:object>
13* </ns1:object_group>'),'*')
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) tab
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XML Example 2
(1_13)
SQL> /
This_Column
That_Column
-----------------
--------------------
ballkeytable
frisbeebbqswitch
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XML Xpath 1 all data together
(1_14_2)
SQL> select
value(tab).extract('//*/text()','xmlns:obj1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/obj_1"').getStringV
al() "This_Column",
value(tab).extract('//obj2:thing/text()','xmlns:obj2="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/obj_2"').g
etStringVal() "That_Column"
4 (XMLType('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

5 <ns1:object_group xmlns:ns1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/sample_namespace_1"
<obj1:object><obj1:thing>ball</obj1:thing><obj1:thing>key</obj1:thing>
12 </obj2:object>
13 </ns1:object_group>'),'/*')
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) ) tab;
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XML Xpath 2 all data together

This_Column
(1_14_2)
That_Column
---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------ballkeytablefrisbeebbqswitch frisbeebbqswitch
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Xpath 1 extract data
(1_15)
SQL> select
value(tab).extract('//obj1:thing[2]/text()','xmlns:obj1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/obj_1"').getSt
ringVal()"This_Column",
value(tab).extract('//obj2:thing/text()','xmlns:obj2="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/obj_2"').getStrin
gVal() "That_Column"
4 (XMLType('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
5 <ns1:object_group xmlns:ns1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/sample_namespace_1"
12 </obj2:object>
13 </ns1:object_group>'),'/*')
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) ) tab;
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Xpath 2 extract data
(1_15)
SQL> col this_column format a40;

SQL> col that_column format a40;
This_Column
That_Column
---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------key
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frisbeebbqswitch
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Xpath Parsing Error 1
(1_16_3)
SELECT extract(value(t), '//text()').getStringVal() AS

obj_examp
TABLE(xmlsequence(extract(mxt.xmlcol, '*'))) t
WHERE mxt.ref_id = 1
OBJ_EXAMP
---------------------------------------ballkeytablefrisbeebbqswitch
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Xpath Parsing Error 2
(1_16_3)
SELECT extract(value(t), '//obj1:thing/text()').getStringVal() AS

obj_examp
FROM my_xml_table,
table(xmlsequence(extract(xmlcol, '*'))) t
WHERE ref_id = 1
SELECT extract(value(t), '//obj1:thing/text()').getStringVal() AS
obj_examp
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-31011: XML parsing failed
ORA-19202: Error occurred in XML processing
LPX-00601: Invalid token in: '//obj1:thing/text() namespace
definition undefined
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XML XPATH no unique elements
(1_17)
SELECT extract(value(t),'//obj1:thing/text()',
'xmlns:obj1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/obj_1"').getStringV
al() AS obj_example
FROM my_xml_table,
table(xmlsequence(extract(xmlcol, '*'))) t
WHERE ref_id = 1
OBJ_EXAMPLE
---------------------ballkeytable
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XML XPATH 1 parse each element, using table
(1_18)
DECLARE

CURSOR obj_cur
IS
SELECT EXTRACT (VALUE (entire_things),'//obj1:thing/text()',

'xmlns:obj1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/obj_1"').
getstringval() AS lcl_thing
FROM my_xml_table,
TABLE(xmlsequence(extract(xmlcol, '//obj1:thing', -- data

xmlns:obj1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/obj_1"')))
entire_things
WHERE ref_id = 1;
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XML XPATH 2 parse each element, using table
(1_18)
BEGIN

dbms_output.put_line
('each element thing '|| obj_row.lcl_thing );
END LOOP;
each element thing ball
each element thing key

each element thing table
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UPDATEXML 1st
(1_19_2)
SQL> describe my_xml_table;

Name
Null?
Type
------------------------REF_ID
NUMBER
XMLCOL
XMLTYPE
select xmlcol from my_xml_table where ref_id = 1;
XMLCOL
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ns1:object_group xmlns:ns1=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/sample_namespace_1
<obj1:object>
</obj1:object>
</obj2:object>
</ns1:object_group>
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UPDATEXML 1 2nd
(1_19_2)
SQL> UPDATE my_xml_table mxt

SET mxt.xmlcol = UPDATEXML(mxt.xmlcol,
'//obj2:thing[1]/text()','FRISBEE',
'xmlns:obj2=
"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/obj_2"')
1 row updated.
-- CHANGE TO CAPS
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UPDATEXML 2 2nd
(1_19_2)
select xmlcol from my_xml_table where ref_id = 1;

XMLCOL
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ns1:object_group xmlns:ns1=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/sample_namespace_1
<obj1:object>
</obj1:object>
<obj2:thing>FRISBEE</obj2:thing>
</obj2:object>
</ns1:object_group>
===========================================
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XML XPATH 1 parse each element, w/o table
(1_20)
-- Anonymous Block
DECLARE
-- Cursor for parsing object_group XML

CURSOR obj_cur
IS SELECT EXTRACT (VALUE (entire_things),
'//obj1:thing/text()',
'xmlns:obj1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/obj_1"').
getstringval() AS lcl_thing
FROM TABLE ( XMLSequence(
extract (XMLType('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ns1:object_group xmlns:ns1=
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/sample_namespace_1
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(1_20)
<obj1:object>
</obj1:object>
</obj2:object>
</ns1:object_group>'),
'//obj1:thing','xmlns:obj1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/obj_1"' )
entire_things;
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) )
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(1_20)
BEGIN

dbms_output.put_line('each element thing '||
obj_row.lcl_thing );
END LOOP;
END anonymous_block;
SQL> /
each element thing ball
each element thing key
each element thing table
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Oracle Text - XML Data Queries
(1_21)
Definitions
contains operator is used when index is of type
context
returns a relevance score for every row selected

select ref_id,score (1) , xmlcol
from my_xml_table
where contains (xmlcol, 'table',1) > 0
Demo
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DBMS_XML.CONVERT
(1_22_3)
DBMS_XMLGEN.CONVERT converts XML data into the

escaped or unescapes
XML equivalent
Example: the escaped form of the character > (without the

characters) is >
(without the characters).
Oracles suggested workaround was to:

1) append a space (CHR(32) to the end of the XPath string,
then
2) DBMS_XMLGEN.CONVERT the string, finally
3) TRIM the string. The workaround resolved the issue.
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DBMS_XMLDOM
(1_23)
Parse using XPath define expression

A whole heap of Metadata
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="WINDOWS-1252"?>
<StandardHeader>
<DateTime>12/08/2010 16:03:46</DateTime>
<PacketNumber>1</PacketNumber>
<AnyMorePackets>Y</AnyMorePackets>
<TotalPackets>4</TotalPackets>
<house>
<room>
<room_name name="kitchen"/>
<room_item item="sink"/>
</room>
|
|
|
<room>
<room_name name="kitchen"/>
<room_item item="table"/>
</room>
<house>
</StandardHeader>
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DBMS_XMLDOM
(1_24) (contd)
Change XML and reduce metadata

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="WINDOWS-1252"?>
<StandardHeader>
<DateTime>12/08/2010 16:03:46</DateTime>
<PacketNumber>1</PacketNumber>
<AnyMorePackets>Y</AnyMorePackets>
<TotalPackets>4</TotalPackets>
<house>
<room room_name="kitchen" room_item="sink"/>
<room room_name="kitchen" room_item="table"/>
<room room_name="kitchen" room_item="counter"/>
<room room_name="kitchen" room_item="microwave"/>
<room room_name="kitchen" room_item="oven"/>
<room room_name="kitchen" room_item="range"/>
<room room_name="kitchen" room_item="refrigerator"/>
<room room_name="living_room" room_item="pictures"/>
<room room_name="living_room" room_item="chair"/>
<room room_name="living_room" room_item="pictures"/>
<room room_name="living_room" room_item="HDTV"/>
<room room_name="living_room" room_item="couch"/>
<room room_name="living_room" room_item="chandelier"/>
<room room_name="den" room_item="surround_sound"/>
<room room_name="den" room_item="fireplace"/>
<room room_name="den" room_item="table"/>
<room room_name="den" room_item="chair"/>
<room room_name="den" room_item="lamp"/>
<room room_name="den" room_item="tagre"/>
<room room_name="den" room_item="HDTV"/>
</house>
</StandardHeader>
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XML Packet Creation

CLOB < 32 K
XML Document > 32K
XML Header
CLOB
XML Header
CLOB
XML Header
pl/sql
CLOB
XML Header
CLOB
XML Header
CLOB
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XML Document Construction

CLOB < 32 K
XML Document > 32K
XML Header
CLOB
XML Header
CLOB
XML Header
pl/sql
CLOB
XML Header
CLOB
XML Header
CLOB
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XML Packet Creation

XML Packet < 32 K
XML Document > 32K
XML Packet 1
XML Packet 2
pl/sql
Limit
Data
Per
Packet
XML Packet 3
XML Packet 4
XML Packet n
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XML Document Construction

XML Packet < 32 K
`
XML Packet 1
XML Document > 32K
XML Packet 2
XML Packet 3
pl/sql
XML Packet 4
XML Packet 5
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XQUERY
(example)
SELECT xmlquery('xs:integer("12") 'returning content ) aa from dual

SELECT xmlquery('
for $i in ora:view("my_relat_table") return $i'
returning content) from dual
SELECT XMLQUERY(' (: run statement SQL Developer :)
<result>{
for $i in ora:view("my_relat_table") return $i
}</result>'
returning content) aa from dual
SELECT XMLQUERY(' (: run statement SQL Developer :)
<result>{
for $i in ora:view("my_relat_table")
where $i/ROW/NAME eq "kitchen"
return $i
}</result>'
returning content) aa from dual
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Bonus
This presentation
LibreOffice The Document Foundation
Vers 4.0.0.3
Website: http://www.libreoffice.org/#0
Sql Developer 3.2.2 Cloud Connections
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References 1
Design Tools: XMLSPY 30 day free trial
http://www.altova.com/
Oracle XML DB Docs: full implementation plus extensions of XML
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/xmldb/index.html
Oracles SQL 11g Doc

http://www.oracle.com/pls/db111/homepage
Oracle Database 11g XML & SQL Oracle Press
Wikipedia.com (xpath, xml, xmlelement, etc.)

Overview XML Constructs
http://www.oradev.com/xml_functions.jsp
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References 2
W3.org
W3schools.com
Oracle Database 10g XML & SQL: Design, Build, & Manage XML
Applications in Java, C, C++, & PL/SQL (Osborne ORACLE Press
Series) (Paperback) by Mark Scardina (Author), Ben Chang
(Author), Jinyu Wang (Author)
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/reallybigindex.html
iso.org
Sql Developer 3.2.2 - 12c Database Support
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/sqldeveloper/sqldev-newfeatures32-1731840.html
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Please Note
Speaker: Coleman Leviter
Topic: A HitchhikersGuide Integrating Oracle XML DB with
11gR2 and SQL Developer 3.2.2
Contact:
cleviter@ieee.org
Please enter NYOUG in the subject line
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Questions
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WMS Group Fifteen years

XML Xpath Terminology

Shred or extract parts of an XML Document

XML Xpath (shredding) Terminology

getClobVal() - Returns a CLOB containing an XML document based on the

XMLTYPE (CLOB) constructor; convert properly formed CLOB to

Table functions are functions that produce a collection of rows

The first form takes as input an XMLType instance and returns a

Because XMLSequence returns a collection of XMLType, you can use

Xpath Expression Syntax

XML Namespace Terms

The namespace is defined by the xmlns attribute in the start tag of an

A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a string of characters which

SQL XML Query (SQLX) Terminology

Create an SQL XML query

fragments and returns an aggregated XML document.

SQLX Examples Table Contents

SQL> select * from myobject;

SQLX - XMLELEMENT Example

XMLELEMENT() takes an element name for identifier, an optional collection

SQLX - XMLFOREST Example

XMLFOREST() converts each of its argument parameters to XML, and then

Formatting Convention for Output

SQLX - XMLAGG Example

(1_4_3) (Pretty Print)

XMLAGG() is an aggregate function. It takes a collection of XML

XML Document TOAD OUT

XML SQL Developer OUT

SQLX Example XMLAGG, XMLATTRIBUTES, Namespace

CLOB; lcl_full_xml CLOB;

XML Namespace Example table contents or in-line

XML XPath Cursor - obtain each row

XPath all data merged

XML Shredding (XPATH) Example

--------------------------------------------------------------------- SQLX (XML Query Xpath)

XPath Shredding Deux

<thing>key</thing> extract this data item

select value(tab).extract('/objects/thing[2]/text()').getStringVal() "This Column"

XML Xpath Shredding Namespace Failure 1

3 from table ( XMLSequence(extract

XML Xpath Shredding Namespace Failure 2

LPX-00601: Invalid token in: '//obj2:thing/text() ob2 <>

XML XPath Shredding 1 data combined

XML XPath Shredding 2 data combined

SQL> col this_column format a20;

(XMLType('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><ns1:object_group

XML Xpath 1 all data together

4 (XMLType('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

XML Xpath 2 all data together

---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------ballkeytablefrisbeebbqswitch frisbeebbqswitch

Xpath 1 extract data

Xpath 2 extract data

SQL> col this_column format a40;

Xpath Parsing Error 1

SELECT extract(value(t), '//text()').getStringVal() AS

Xpath Parsing Error 2

SELECT extract(value(t), '//obj1:thing/text()').getStringVal() AS

XML XPATH no unique elements