Thank you for your time.
I am trying to use method 1 mentioned in reply 1 of https://community.oracle.com/thread/1115266?tstart=0
Please suggest how to modify the XML part of Method 1 to suit my XML?
I am also including the code mentioned in Method 1 for convenience
Create or replace procedure parse_xml is
l_bfile BFILE;
l_clob CLOB;
l_parser dbms_xmlparser.Parser;
l_doc dbms_xmldom.DOMDocument;
l_nl dbms_xmldom.DOMNodeList;
l_n dbms_xmldom.DOMNode;
l_file dbms_xmldom.DOMNodeList;
l_filen dbms_xmldom.DOMNode;
lv_value VARCHAR2(1000);
l_ch dbms_xmldom.DOMNode;
l_partname varchar2(100);
l_filename varchar2(1000);
l_temp VARCHAR2(1000);
TYPE tab_type IS TABLE OF tab_software_parts%ROWTYPE;
t_tab tab_type := tab_type();
BEGIN
l_bfile := BFileName('DIR1', 'SoftwareParts.xml');
dbms_lob.createtemporary(l_clob, cache=>FALSE);
dbms_lob.open(l_bfile, dbms_lob.lob_readonly);
dbms_lob.loadFromFile(dest_lob => l_clob, src_lob => l_bfile, amount => dbms_lob.getLength(l_bfile));
dbms_lob.close(l_bfile);
dbms_session.set_nls('NLS_DATE_FORMAT','''DD-MON-YYYY''');
l_parser := dbms_xmlparser.newParser;
dbms_xmlparser.parseClob(l_parser, l_clob);
l_doc := dbms_xmlparser.getDocument(l_parser);
dbms_lob.freetemporary(l_clob);
dbms_xmlparser.freeParser(l_parser);
l_nl := dbms_xslprocessor.selectNodes(dbms_xmldom.makeNode(l_doc),'/PartDetails/Part');
FOR cur_emp IN 0 .. dbms_xmldom.getLength(l_nl) - 1 LOOP
l_n := dbms_xmldom.item(l_nl, cur_emp);
t_tab.extend;
dbms_xslprocessor.valueOf(l_n,'Name/text()',l_partname);
t_tab(t_tab.last).partname := l_partname;
l_file := dbms_xslprocessor.selectNodes(l_n,'Files/FileName');
FOR cur_ch IN 0 .. dbms_xmldom.getLength(l_file) - 1 LOOP
l_ch := dbms_xmldom.item(l_file, cur_ch);
lv_value := dbms_xmldom.getnodevalue(dbms_xmldom.getfirstchild(l_ch));
if t_tab(t_tab.last).partname is null then t_tab(t_tab.last).partname := l_partname; end if;
t_tab(t_tab.last).filename := lv_value;
t_tab.extend;
END LOOP;
END LOOP;
t_tab.delete(t_tab.last);
FOR cur_emp IN t_tab.first .. t_tab.last LOOP
if t_tab(cur_emp).partname is not null and t_tab(cur_emp).filename is not null then
INSERT INTO tab_software_parts
VALUES
(t_tab(cur_emp).partname, t_tab(cur_emp).filename);
end if;
END LOOP;
COMMIT;
dbms_xmldom.freeDocument(l_doc);
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
dbms_lob.freetemporary(l_clob);
dbms_xmlparser.freeParser(l_parser);
dbms_xmldom.freeDocument(l_doc);
END;
I have an XML file in the following format.
<TWObject className="TWObject">
<array size="240">
<item>
<variable type="QuestionDetail">
<questionId type="String"><![CDATA[30]]></questionId>
<questionType type="questionType"><![CDATA[COUNTRY]]></questionType>
<country type="String"><![CDATA[GB]]></country>
<questionText type="String"><![CDATA[Please indicate if the following "Type of Market Research" applies to your Project : <br><br>Detail Follow-up Study OR Message Recall Study fielded from a Lilly Call/Target List]]></questionText>
<optionType type="String"><![CDATA[RadioButton]]></optionType>
<answerOptions type="String[]">
<item><![CDATA[Yes]]></item>
<item><![CDATA[No]]></item>
</answerOptions>
<ruleId type="String"><![CDATA[CRP_GB001]]></ruleId>
<parentQuestionId type="String"></parentQuestionId>
<parentQuestionResp type="String"></parentQuestionResp>
</variable>
</item>
</array>
</TWObject>