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Oracle® Database SQL Language Reference
11g Release 1 (11.1)

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APPENDCHILDXML

Syntax

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Purpose

APPENDCHILDXML appends a user-supplied value onto the target XML as the child of the node indicated by an XPath expression.

See Also:

Oracle XML DB Developer's Guide for more information about this function

Examples

The following example adds an /Owner node to the /Warehouse/Building node of warehouse_spec in the oe.warehouses table if the value of the /Building node is "Rented":

UPDATE warehouses SET warehouse_spec =
   APPENDCHILDXML(warehouse_spec,
   'Warehouse/Building',
   XMLType('<Owner>Grandco</Owner>'))
   WHERE EXTRACTVALUE(warehouse_spec, '/Warehouse/Building') = 'Rented';
 
SELECT warehouse_id, warehouse_name,
   EXTRACTVALUE(warehouse_spec, '/Warehouse/Building/Owner') "Prop.Owner"
   FROM warehouses
   WHERE EXISTSNODE(warehouse_spec, '/Warehouse/Building/Owner') = 1;

WAREHOUSE_ID WAREHOUSE_NAME  Prop.Owner
------------ --------------- ----------
           2 San Francisco   Grandco
           3 New Jersey      Grandco