XML-Enabled Applications - Part 3

This is an excerpt from the book, PHP Oracle Web Development: Data processing, Security, Caching, XML, Web Services, and Ajax, by Yuli Vasiliev. Published by Packt Publishing Ltd., 2007

Retrieving XML Data

To retrieve XML data from an XMLType table, you can use a SELECT SQL statement, just as you would if you had to query a relational table. For example, to select the employee with the id set to 100 from the employees XMLType table discussed in the preceding section, you might issue the following query from SQL*Plus when connected as xmlusr/xmlusr:

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