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Connor McDonald

Thanks for the question, shyam.

Asked: February 13, 2019 - 5:22 pm UTC

Last updated: June 07, 2022 - 3:11 am UTC

Version: oracle 12c

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we have a following definition
TYPE response_t IS RECORD (
doc XMLTYPE
);

A local variable is defined with that record type
lv_resp response_t;

I want to print the value this local variable has stored.I tried dbms_output but dint work.Can you please suggest me an alternative.

and Connor said...

SQL> set serverout on
SQL> declare
  2    x xmltype;
  3  begin
  4    x := xmltype('<xml><name>Connor</name></xml>');
  5
  6    dbms_output.put_line(x.getstringval());
  7  end;
  8  /
<xml><name>Connor</name></xml>

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.


There's a getclobval as well for bigger ones

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Naresh, February 18, 2021 - 11:50 am UTC

The Answer is correct but I have the huge string so I used getclobval() which is not working. Giving error message "PL/SQL: numeric or value error".
Chris Saxon
February 22, 2021 - 4:44 pm UTC

Please could you show us a complete example of what you're doing?

dbms_output.put_line(x.getstringval()); consuming time

Akshat, June 04, 2022 - 5:52 pm UTC

x.getstringval()

for above member function of XML element,

is there an alternative of this function or any other way around to get the faster printing in string format using dbms_output.put_line.

I am using x.getstringval() in my project and it is consuming lot of time to print the data on the console.

Please help me to improve the performance of the code.

Connor McDonald
June 07, 2022 - 3:11 am UTC

Can you give us a full example of what you're doing with some timings to show us the issue
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