XMLPATCH

Syntax

Description of the illustration xmlpatch.eps

Purpose

The XMLPatch function is the SQL interface for the XmlPatch C API. This function patches an XML document with the changes specified. A patched XMLType document is returned.

For the first argument, specify the name of the input XMLType document.
For the second argument, specify the XMLType document containing the changes to be applied to the first document. The changes should conform to the Xdiff XML schema. You can supply the XML output from the Oracle XML Developer's Kit Java method diff().

See Also:

Oracle XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide for more information on using this function, including examples, and Oracle Database XML C API Reference for information on the XML APIs for C

Examples

The following example patches an XMLType document with the changes specified in another XMLType and returns a patched XMLType document:

SELECT XMLPATCH(
XMLTYPE('<?xml version="1.0"?>
<bk:book xmlns:bk="http://example.com">
   <bk:tr>
        <bk:td>
                <bk:chapter>
                        Chapter 1.
                </bk:chapter>
        </bk:td>
        <bk:td>
                 <bk:chapter>
                        Chapter 2.
                </bk:chapter>
        </bk:td>
   </bk:tr>
</bk:book>'),
XMLTYPE('<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xd:xdiff xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.oracle.com/xdb/xdiff.xsd
  http://xmlns.oracle.com/xdb/xdiff.xsd"
  xmlns:xd="http://xmlns.oracle.com/xdb/xdiff.xsd"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns:bk="http://example.com">
  <?oracle-xmldiff operations-in-docorder="true" output-model="snapshot"
    diff-algorithm="global"?>
  <xd:delete-node xd:node-type="element"
   xd:xpath="/bk:book[1]/bk:tr[1]/bk:td[2]/bk:chapter[1]"/>
</xd:xdiff>')
)
FROM DUAL;