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ORA-19279: XPTY0004 - XQuery dynamic type mismatch: expected singleton sequence - got multi-item seq

Subramanyam Yalla-OracleJul 12 2019 — edited Jul 14 2019

Hi,

I wrote below code to extract data from xml data file.

select   ata, mpditemnbr

    from  

        temp_tab , 

        xmltable( 

            '/mpd/chapter/smits-section'

            passing xmltype(file_data,1) 

            columns 

                FirstRecord xmltype path 'mpd-sys-maints' 

    ),

        xmltable( 

        'mpd-sys-maints' 

        passing FirstRecord 

        columns 

                ata varchar2(100) path 'ata-header',

                Record xmltype path 'mpd-sys-maint'),  

    xmltable( 

        'mpd-sys-maint' 

        passing Record 

        columns 

            RecordTasknbr varchar2(100) path '@tasknbr', 

            mpditemnbr    varchar2(30) path 'mpd-item-nbr'         

    )

I am getting below error when executed this query:

ORA-19279: XPTY0004 - XQuery dynamic type mismatch: expected singleton sequence - got multi-item sequence

19279. 00000 -  "XPTY0004 - XQuery dynamic type mismatch: expected singleton sequence - got multi-item sequence"

*Cause:    The XQuery sequence passed in had more than one item.

*Action:   Correct the XQuery expression to return a single item sequence.

Please advise what mistake I am doing in the query.

xml data file is given below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE mpd SYSTEM "mpboe04.dtd">

<mpd spl="81205" model="777-200/300" oidate="01.JAN.1995" revdate="05.JAN.2019" tsn="019" docnbr="D622W001XMLSUP" lang="EN">

<chapter key="JEFD20796A1B2319E206D4AF2E0F7F84" fragment="1" subfragment="0">

<title>SYSTEM MAINTENANCE PROGRAM</title>

<smits-section key="LF3D50E082B92E7E54E5161A661A3A99" fragment="1" subfragment="1">

<title>SYSTEMS AND POWERPLANT MAINTENANCE PROGRAM</title>

<mpd-sys-maints chapter-id="CH1">

<ata-header>ATA 12: SERVICING</ata-header>

<mpd-sys-maint tasknbr="12-002-01">

<mpd-item-nbr>12-002-01</mpd-item-nbr>

</mpd-sys-maint>

<ata-header>ATA 20: STANDARD PRACTICES - AIRFRAME</ata-header>

<mpd-sys-maint tasknbr="20-010-00">

<mpd-item-nbr>20-010-00</mpd-item-nbr>

</mpd-sys-maint>

</mpd-sys-maints>

</smits-section>

</chapter>

</mpd>

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