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

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XMLTABLE

Syntax

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XMLnamespaces_clause::=

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XMLTABLE_options::=

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XML_passing_clause::=

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XML_table_column::=

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Purpose

XMLTable maps the result of an XQuery evaluation into relational rows and columns. You can query the result returned by the function as a virtual relational table using SQL.

See Also:

Oracle XML DB Developer's Guide for more information on the XMLTable function, including additional examples, and on XQuery in general

Examples

The following example converts the result of applying the XQuery '/Warehouse' to each value in the warehouse_spec column of the warehouses table into a virtual relational table with columns Water and Rail:

SELECT warehouse_name warehouse,
   warehouse2."Water", warehouse2."Rail"
   FROM warehouses,
   XMLTABLE('/Warehouse'
      PASSING warehouses.warehouse_spec
      COLUMNS 
         "Water" varchar2(6) PATH '/Warehouse/WaterAccess',
         "Rail" varchar2(6) PATH '/Warehouse/RailAccess') 
      warehouse2;

WAREHOUSE                           Water  Rail
----------------------------------- ------ ------
Southlake, Texas                    Y      N
San Francisco                       Y      N
New Jersey                          N      N
Seattle, Washington                 N      Y