What's New in the XML C APIs?

This section describes new features in Oracle Database XML C API Reference and supplies pointers to additional information.

New Features for Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1)

The following features are new to the Oracle Database 11g Release 1:

DOM Stream Access to XML Nodes and Attributes

Information about this feature is in the chapter Chapter 3, "Package DOM APIs for C". In includes support for the following functions:

• XmlDomGetPullNodeAsBinaryStream()

• XmlDomGetPullNodeAsCharacterStream()

• XmlDomGetPushNodeAsBinaryStream()

• XmlDomGetPushNodeAsCharacterStream()

• XmlDomSetPullNodeAsBinaryStream()

• XmlDomSetPullNodeAsCharacterStream()

• XmlDomSetPushNodeAsBinaryStream()

• XmlDomSetPushNodeAsCharacterStream()

XML Diff Support

Information about this feature is in the new Chapter 11, "Package XmlDiff APIs for C". It includes support for the following functions:

• XmlDiff()

• XmlHash()

• XmlPatch()

Event-based XML Pull Parsing and Scalable and High Performance XML Validation

Information about this feature is in the new Chapter 4, "Package Event APIs for C".