Oracle DBMS_XMLTRANSLATIONS
Version 26ai

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Purpose Translation so strings can be searched/displayed
AUTHID CURRENT_USER
Dependencies
DBMS_XDBTRANS_LIB XMLTYPE  
Documented No
First Available 2006
Security Model Owned by XDB with EXECUTE granted to PUBLIC
Source {ORACLE_HOME}/rdbms/admin/dbmsxtr.sql
Subprograms
 
DISABLETRANSLATION
Disables translations in the current session so that query or retrieval will take place on the base document ignoring session language values dbms_xmltranslations.disableTranslation;
exec dbms_xmltranslations.disableTranslation;

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
 
ENABLETRANSLATION
Enables translations in the current session so that query or retrieval will take place on the base document ignoring session language values dbms_xmltranslations.enableTranslation;
exec dbms_xmltranslations.enableTranslation;

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
 
EXTRACTXLIFF
Extracts the translations in XLIFF format from either an XMLTYPE or a resource in the XDB Repository

Overload 1
dbms_xmltranslations.extractXLIFF(
doc       IN XMLTYPE,
xpath     IN VARCHAR2,
namespace IN VARCHAR2 := NULL)
RETURN XMLTYPE;
TBD
Overload 2 dbms_xmltranslations.extractXLIFF(
abspath   IN VARCHAR2,
xpath     IN VARCHAR2,
namespace IN VARCHAR2 := NULL)
RETURN XMLTYPE;
TBD
 
GETBASEDOCUMENT
Returns the base document with translations dbms_xmltranslations.getBaseDocument(doc IN XMLTYPE) RETURN XMLTYPE;
TBD
 
MERGEXLIFF
Merges the translations in XLIFF format into either an XMLTYPE or a resource in the XDB Repository
Overload 1
dbms_xmltranslations.mergeXLIFF(
doc   IN XMLTYPE,
xliff IN XMLTYPE
)
RETURN XMLTYPE;
TBD
Overload 2 dbms_xmltranslations.mergeXLIFF(xliff IN XMLTYPE);
TBD
 
SETSOURCELANG
Sets the source language at a specified XPATH dbms_xmltranslations.setSourceLang(
doc       IN XMLTYPE,
xpath     IN VARCHAR2,
lang      IN VARCHAR2,
namespace IN VARCHAR2 := NULL)
RETURN XMLTYPE;
TBD
 
TRANSLATEXML
Returns the document in the specified language dbms_xmltranslations.translateXML(
doc  IN XMLTYPE,
lang IN VARCHAR2)
RETURN XMLTYPE;
TBD
 
UPDATETRANSLATION
Updates the translation in a particular language at the specified XPATH dbms_xmltranslations.updateTranslation(
doc       IN XMLTYPE,
xpath     IN VARCHAR2,
lang      IN VARCHAR2,
value     IN VARCHAR2,
namespace IN VARCHAR2 := NULL)
RETURN XMLTYPE;
TBD

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