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<h2>XMLType.getClobVal</h2>
<div class="refpurpose">This function returns the serialization of the current node
like XPATH function 'serialize()', i.e. a text in XML syntax.</div>
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<span class="function">XMLType.getClobVal</span>
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<div class="refsect1title">Description</div>
<p>This function returns the serialization of the current node. This is
similar to the XPATH function 'serialize()', i.e. a text in XML syntax.
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<div class="refsect1">
<div class="refsect1title">Return Types</div>
<p>The function returns wide string.</p>
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<div class="exampletitle">A table with an XMLType column</div>
<p>This populates a table with XML data and then selects string
representation of 'ename' element from the appropriate record.</p>
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create table TEST_XMLS (I integer primary key, XMLVAL XMLType);
insert into TEST_XMLS values (1, XMLType('<emp><empno>221</empno><ename>John</ename></emp>'));
insert into TEST_XMLS values (2, XMLType('<po><pono>331</pono><poname>PO_1</poname></po>'));
insert into TEST_XMLS values (3, XMLType('<oil-rig id="14a" water="0.413"/><oil-rig id="14b" water="0.402"/>'));
select e.XMLVAL.extract ('//ename').getCLobVal() as ENAME
from TEST_XMLS as e
where e.XMLVAL.existsNode('/emp/empno')
ENAME
NVARCHAR
_______________________________________________________________________________
<ename>John</ename>
1 Rows. -- 00000 msec.
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