DBMS_XMLDOM v17

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The DBMS_XMLDOM package implements Document Object Model (DOM) and is used to create DOM documents from scratch or from an XML document.

EDB Postgres Advanced Server's implementation of DBMS_XMLDOM is a partial implementation when compared to Oracle's version. Only the functions and procedures listed in the tables that follow are supported.

Types

The DBMS_XMLDOM package implements the following types.

Type name	Description
`DOMNode`	It implements the DOM Node interface.
`DOMNodeList`	It implements the DOM NodeList interface.
`DOMElement`	It implements the DOM Element interface.
`DOMText`	It implements the DOM Text interface.
`DOMDocument`	It implements the DOM Document interface.

Subprograms

This table lists the subprograms available with the DBMS_XMLDOM package.

Subprogram	Type	Return type	Description
`APPENDCHILD`	Function	DOMNode	Appends a new child to the node.
`CREATEELEMENT`	Function	DOMElement	Creates an element.
`CREATETEXTNODE`	Function	DOMText	Creates a text node.
`FREEDOCUMENT`	Procedure	N/A	Frees the resources associated with the DOMDocument.
`GETATTRIBUTE`	Function	DOMElement	Retrieves the attribute value given to an attribute name and returns VARCHAR2.
`GETCHILDNODES`	Function	DOMNodeList	Retrieves the children of the node.
`GETFIRSTCHILD`	Function	DOMNode	Retrieves the first child of the node.
`GETLENGTH`	Function	PLS_INTEGER	Retrieves the number of items in the given DOMNodeList.
`GETNODENAME`	Function	VARCHAR2	Retrieves the name of the node.
`GETNODEVALUE`	Function	VARCHAR2	Retrieves the value of the node.
`GETXMLTYPE`	Function	XMLTYPE	Converts DOMDocument to XMLType and returns it.
`ITEM`	Function	DOMNode	Retrieves the item from the given index in the NODELIST.
`MAKEELEMENT`	Function	DOMElement	Casts the node to a DOMElement.
`MAKENODE`	Function	DOMNode	Casts the attribute to a node.
`NEWDOMDOCUMENT`	Function	DOMDocument	Creates a document.
`SETATTRIBUTE`	Procedure	N/A	Sets the attribute value of a DOMElement.
`SETVERSION`	Procedure	N/A	Sets the version of the document.

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