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Purpose
Database support for XQuery
AUTHID
CURRENT_USER
Dependencies
XMLTYPE
Documented
No
First Available
11.2
Security Model
Owned by SYS with EXECUTE granted to PUBLIC
Source
{ORACLE_HOME}/rdbms/admin/initxqry.sql
EVAL
Undocumented
dbms_xquery.eval(xqry IN VARCHAR2) RETURN XMLTYPE;
conn uwclass/uwclass@pdbdev
set serveroutput on
DECLARE
inval VARCHAR2(200) := '''FOR $i IN /PDRecord where $i /PDName = "Daniel Morgan" ORDER BY $i/PDName return $i/PDName'' PASSING BY VALUE person_data';
retval XMLTYPE;
BEGIN
retval := dbms_xquery.eval(inval);
END;
/
DECLARE
inval VARCHAR2(200) := 'FOR $i IN /PDRecord where $i /PDName = "Daniel Morgan" ORDER BY $i/PDName return $i/PDName';
retval XMLTYPE;
BEGIN
retval := dbms_xquery.eval(inval);
END;
/