DBMS_XMLSCHEMA
package provides procedures to manage XML schemas. It is created by script dbmsxsch.sql
during Oracle database installation.
See Also:
Oracle XML DB Developer's GuideThis chapter contains the following topics:
Overview
Security Model
Constants
Views
Operational Notes
This section contains topics which relate to using the DBMS_XMLSCHEMA
package.
This package provides subprograms to
Register an XML schema
Delete a previously registered XML schema
Re-compile a previously registered XML schema
Generate an XML schema
Evolves an XML schema
Owned by XDB
, the DBMS_XMLSCHEMA
package must be created by SYS
or XDB
. The EXECUTE
privilege is granted to PUBLIC
. Subprograms in this package are executed using the privileges of the current user.
The DBMS_XMLSCHEMA
package uses the constants shown in following tables.
Table 177-1 DBMS_XMLSCHEMA Constants - Delete Option
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Deletion of an XML schema fails if there are any tables or XML schemas that depend on it |
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Deletion of an XML schema does not fail if there are tables or XML schemas that depend on it. All dependent tables and schemas are invalidated. |
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Deletion of an XML schema also drops all SQL types and default tables associated with it. SQL types are dropped only if |
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This option is similar to |
Table 177-2 DBMS_XMLSCHEMA Constants - Enable Hierarchy
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Table 177-3 DBMS_XMLSCHEMA Constants - Register CSID
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If a schema is registered for metadata use (using the value |
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If user wishes to not specify the character set of the input schema document when invoking |
The DBMS_XMLSCHEMA
package uses the views shown in Table 177-4. The columns of these views are described in detail in the Oracle Database Reference.
Table 177-4 Summary of Views used by DBMS_XMLSCHEMA
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All registered XML Schemas owned by the user |
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All registered XML Schemas usable by the current user |
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All registered XML Schemas in the database |
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Guidelines for Using In-Place XML Schema Evolution
Before you perform an in-place XML-schema evolution, you should follow these preparatory steps:
Back up all existing data (instance documents) for the XML schema that will be evolved.
Perform a dry run using trace only, that is, without actually evolving the XML schema or updating any instance documents, to produce a trace of the update operations that would be performed during evolution. To do this, set the flag parameter value to only INPLACE_TRACE
. Do not also use INPLACE_EVOLVE
. After performing the dry run, examine the trace file, verifying that the listed DDL operations are in fact those that you intend.
Table 177-5 DBMS_XMLSCHEMA Package Subprograms
Method | Description |
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Used to re-compile an already registered XML schema. This is useful for bringing a schema in an invalid state to a valid state. |
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Evolves registered schemas so that existing XML instances remain valid |
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Removes the schema from the database |
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Generates an XML schema from an oracle type name |
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Generates several XML schemas from an oracle type name |
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Evolves registered schemas by propagating schema changes to object types and tables |
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Removes the XML schema |
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Registers the specified schema for use by Oracle. This schema can then be used to store documents conforming to this. |
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Registers an XML schema specified by a URI name |
This procedure can be used to re-compile an already registered XML schema. This is useful for bringing a schema in an invalid state to a valid state. Can result in a ORA-31001
exception: invalid resource handle or path name.
This procedure evolves registered schemas so that existing XML instances remain valid.
This procedure is accomplished in according to the following basic scenario (alternative actions are controlled by the procedure's parameters):
copies data in schema based XMLType
tables to temporary table storage
drops old tables
deletes old schemas
registers new schemas
creates new XMLType
tables
Populates new tables with data in temporary storage; auxiliary structures (constraints, triggers, indexes, and others) are not preserved
drops temporary tables
See Also:
"Schema Evolution" chapter of the Oracle XML DB Developer's Guide for examples on how to evolve existing schemas
Oracle Database Error Messages for information on exceptions specific to schema evolution, ORA-30142 through ORA-30946.
DBMS_XMLSCHEMA.COPYEVOLVE( schemaurls IN XDB$STRUBG_LIST_T, newschemas IN XMLSequenceType, transforms IN XMLSequenceType :=NULL, preserveolddocs IN BOOLEAN :=FALSE, maptablename IN VARCHAR2 :=NULL, generatetables IN BOOLEAN :=TRUE, force IN BOOLEAN :=FALSE, schemaowners IN XDB$STRING_LIST_T :=NULL parallelDegree IN PLS_INTEGER := 0, options IN PLS_INTEGER := 0);
Table 177-7 COPYEVOLVE Procedure Parameters
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Default is |
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Specifies the name of the table mapping permanent to temporary tables during the evolution process. Valid columns are:
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Default is If
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Default is If |
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Specifies the degree of parallelism to be used in a |
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Currently, the only supported option is |
You should back up all schemas and documents prior to invocation because COPYEVOLVE Procedure deletes all conforming documents prior to implementing the schema evolution.
This procedure deletes the XML Schema specified by the URL.
DBMS_XMLSCHEMA.DELETESCHEMA( schemaurl IN VARCHAR2, delete_option IN PLS_INTEGER := DELETE_RESTRICT);
See Also:
"XMLSCHEMA Storage and Query: Basic" chapter of the Oracle XML DB Developer's GuideTable 177-8 DELETESCHEMA Procedure Parameters
Parameter | Description |
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URL identifying the schema to be deleted |
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Delete options:
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This function generates XML schema(s) from an Oracle type name. It inlines all in one schema (XMLType
).
See Also:
"XMLSCHEMA Storage and Query: Advanced" chapter of the Oracle XML DB Developer's GuideDBMS_XMLSCHEMA.GENERATESCHEMA( schemaname IN VARCHAR2, typename IN VARCHAR2, elementname IN VARCHAR2 := NULL, recurse IN BOOLEAN := TRUE, annotate IN BOOLEAN := TRUE, embedcoll IN BOOLEAN := TRUE) RETURN SYS.XMLTYPE;
Table 177-10 GENERATESCHEMA Function Parameters
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Name of the database schema containing the type |
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Name of the Oracle type |
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The name of the top level element in the XML Schema. Defaults to |
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Whether or not to also generate schema for all types referred to by the type specified |
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Whether or not to put the SQL annotations in the XML Schema |
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Determines whether the collections should be embedded in the type which refers to them, or create a |
This function generates XML schema(s) from an Oracle type name. It returns a collection of XMLType
s, one XML Schema document for each database schema.
See Also:
"XMLSCHEMA Storage and Query: Advanced" chapter of the Oracle XML DB Developer's GuideDBMS_XMLSCHEMA.GENERATESCHEMAS( schemaname IN VARCHAR2, typename IN VARCHAR2, elementname IN VARCHAR2 := NULL, schemaurl IN VARCHAR2 := NULL, annotate IN BOOLEAN := TRUE, embedcoll IN BOOLEAN := TRUE ) RETURN SYS.XMLTYPE;
Table 177-12 GENERATESCHEMAS Function Parameters
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Name of the database schema containing the type |
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Name of the Oracle type |
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The name of the top level element in the XML Schema defaults to |
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Specifies base URL where schemas will be stored, needed by top level schema for import statement |
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Whether or not to put the SQL annotations in the XML Schema |
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Determines whether the collections be embedded in the type which refers to them, or create a |
This procedure evolves registered schemas by propagating schema changes to object types and tables.
Table 177-14 INPLACEEVOLVE Procedure Parameters
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URL of the schema to evolve |
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Changes to be applied to the schema. This is an XML document conforming to the |
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The following bits may be set in this parameter to control the behavior of this procedure:
That is, each of the bits constructs the new XML schema, validates it, and determines the steps needed to evolve the disk structures underlying the instance documents. In addition:
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The procedure raises exceptions in the following cases:
An error will be raised for invalid XPATH
expressions and for XDIFF
documents that do not conform to the xdiff schema.
Path expressions that are syntactically correct but result in an invalid node in the schema document will result in an error.
If the schema change makes the schema an ill-formed XML document or an invalid XML schema, this will raise an error.
Any errors resulting from CREATE
TYPE
, ALTER
TYPE
and like commands will generate error messages.
Users are required to backup all their data before attempting in-place evolution, as there is no rollback with this operation.
A user must register their new XML schema with the database using the REGISTERSCHEMA Procedures and the REGISTERURI Procedure at a schema URL that is different from that of the one to be evolved. If the new schema registers successfully and is usable, only then should the user attempt to evolve the existing schema to the new schema by means of this subprogram. If the registration of the new schema is successful, then the user must delete this schema (and all its dependent objects) before attempting to evolve the schema at the old schema URL.
This procedure removes the XML schema.
See Also:
"XMLSCHEMA Storage and Query: Advanced" chapter of the Oracle XML DB Developer's GuideThe schema should have been originally registered for binary encoding and should have been deleted in the HIDE
mode.
Once a schema has been deleted in HIDE
mode, it continues to exist in the XML DB dictionary and is used for decoding already encoded documents. The user invokes this interface when there are no stored instances encoded with this schema.
Once the schema is purged, any space used by that schema will be reclaimed and documents encoded using the schema will raise an error if an attempt is made to decode them.
The Schema ID can be obtained from the catalog views.
This procedure registers the specified schema for use by the database. The procedure is overloaded. The different functionality of each form of syntax is presented along with the definition.
Note:
As of release 11.2.0.2 thegenbean
parameter is deprecated. Oracle recommends that you do not use this parameter in new applications. Support for this feature is for backward compatibility only.See Also:
"XMLSCHEMA Storage and Query: Basic" chapter of the Oracle XML DB Developer's GuideRegisters a schema specified as a VARCHAR2
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DBMS_XMLSCHEMA.REGISTERSCHEMA( schemaurl IN VARCHAR2, schemadoc IN VARCHAR2, local IN BOOLEAN := TRUE, gentypes IN BOOLEAN := TRUE, genbean IN BOOLEAN := FALSE, gentables IN BOOLEAN := TRUE, force IN BOOLEAN := FALSE, owner IN VARCHAR2 := NULL, enablehierarchy IN PLS_INTEGER := DBMS_XMLSCHEMA.ENABLE_CONTENTS, options IN PLS_INTEGER := 0);
Registers the schema specified as a BFILE
. The contents of the schema document must be in the database character set:
DBMS_XMLSCHEMA.REGISTERSCHEMA( schemaurl IN VARCHAR2, schemadoc IN BFILE, local IN BOOLEAN := TRUE, gentypes IN BOOLEAN := TRUE, genbean IN BOOLEAN := FALSE, force IN BOOLEAN := FALSE, owner IN VARCHAR2 := NULL, enablehierarchy IN PLS_INTEGER := DBMS_XMLSCHEMA.ENABLE_CONTENTS, options IN PLS_INTEGER := 0);
Registers the schema specified as a BFILE
and identifies the character set id of the schema document:
DBMS_XMLSCHEMA.REGISTERSCHEMA( schemaurl IN VARCHAR2, schemadoc IN BFILE, local IN BOOLEAN := TRUE, gentypes IN BOOLEAN := TRUE, genbean IN BOOLEAN := TRUE, gentables IN BOOLEAN := TRUE, force IN BOOLEAN := TRUE, owner IN VARCHAR2 := '', csid IN NUMBER, enablehierarchy IN PLS_INTEGER := DBMS_XMLSCHEMA.ENABLE_CONTENTS, options IN PLS_INTEGER := 0);
Registers the schema specified as a BLOB
. The contents of the schema document must be in the database character set:
DBMS_XMLSCHEMA.REGISTERSCHEMA( schemaurl IN VARCHAR2, schemadoc IN BLOB, local IN BOOLEAN := TRUE, genTypes IN BOOLEAN := TRUE, genBean IN BOOLEAN := FASLE, force IN BOOLEAN := FALSE, owner IN VARCHAR2 := NULL, enablehierarchy IN PLS_INTEGER := DBMS_XMLSCHEMA.ENABLE_CONTENTS, options IN PLS_INTEGER := 0);
Registers the schema specified as a BLOB
and identifies the character set id of the schema document:
DBMS_XMLSCHEMA.REGISTERSCHEMA( schemaurl IN VARCHAR2, schemadoc IN BLOB, local IN BOOLEAN := TRUE, gentypes IN BOOLEAN := TRUE, genbean IN BOOLEAN := TRUE, gentables IN BOOLEAN := TRUE, force IN BOOLEAN := TRUE, owner IN VARCHAR2 := '', csid IN NUMBER, enablehierarchy IN PLS_INTEGER := DBMS_XMLSCHEMA.ENABLE_CONTENTS, options IN PLS_INTEGER := 0);
Registers the schema specified as a CLOB
DBMS_XMLSCHEMA.REGISTERSCHEMA( schemaurl IN VARCHAR2, schemadoc IN CLOB, local IN BOOLEAN := TRUE, gentypes IN BOOLEAN := TRUE, genbean IN BOOLEAN := FALSE, force IN BOOLEAN := FALSE, owner IN VARCHAR2 := NULL, options IN PLS_INTEGER := 0);
Registers the schema specified as an XMLTYPE
.
DBMS_XMLSCHEMA.REGISTERSCHEMA( schemaurl IN VARCHAR2, schemadoc IN SYS.XMLTYPE, local IN BOOLEAN := TRUE, gentypes IN BOOLEAN := TRUE, genbean IN BOOLEAN := FALSE, force IN BOOLEAN := FALSE, owner IN VARCHAR2 := NULL, enablehierarchy IN PLS_INTEGER := DBMS_XMLSCHEMA.ENABLE_CONTENTS, options IN PLS_INTEGER := 0);
Registers the schema specified as a BLOB
. The contents of the schema document must be in the database character set:
DBMS_XMLSCHEMA.REGISTERSCHEMA( schemaurl IN VARCHAR2, schemadoc IN SYS.URIType, local IN BOOLEAN := TRUE, gentypes IN BOOLEAN := TRUE, genbean IN BOOLEAN := FALSE, force IN BOOLEAN := FALSE, owner IN VARCHAR2 := NULL, enablehierarchy IN PLS_INTEGER := DBMS_XMLSCHEMA.ENABLE_CONTENTS, options IN PLS_INTEGER := 0);
Table 177-16 REGSITERSCHEMA Procedure Parameters
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URL that uniquely identifies the schema document. This value is used to derive the path name of the schema document within the database hierarchy. Can be used inside |
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A valid XML schema document |
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Is this a local or global schema?
You need write privileges on the directory to be able to register a schema as global. |
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Determines whether the schema compiler generates object types. By default, |
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Determines whether the schema compiler generates Java beans. By default, |
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Determines whether the schema compiler generates default tables. By default, |
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If this parameter is set to |
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This parameter specifies the name of the database user owning the XML schema object. By default, the user registering the schema owns the XML schema object. This parameter can be used to register a XML schema to be owned by a different database user. |
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Identifies the character set of the input schema document. If this value is |
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Additional options to specify how the schema should be registered. The various options are represented as bits of an integer and the options parameter should be constructed by doing a
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This procedure registers an XML Schema specified by a URI name.
Note:
As of release 11.2.0.2 thegenbean
parameter is deprecated. Oracle recommends that you do not use this parameter in new applications. Support for this feature is for backward compatibility only.DBMS_XMLSCHEMA.REGISTERURI( schemaurl IN VARCHAR2, schemadocuri IN VARCHAR2, local IN BOOLEAN := TRUE, gentypes IN BOOLEAN := TRUE, genbean IN BOOLEAN := FALSE, gentables IN BOOLEAN := TRUE, force IN BOOLEAN := FALSE, owner IN VARCHAR2 := NULL, options IN PLS_INTEGER := 0);
Table 177-17 REGISTERURI Procedure Parameters
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Uniquely identifies the schema document. Can be used inside |
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Pathname (URI) corresponding to the physical location of the schema document. The URI path could be based on HTTP, FTP, DB or Oracle XML DB protocols. This function constructs a |
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Determines whether this is a local or global schema. By default, all schemas are registered as local schemas, under |
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Determines whether the compiler generate object types. By default, |
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Determines whether the compiler generate Java beans. By default, |
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Determines whether the compiler generate default tables. |
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This parameter specifies the name of the database user owning the XML schema object. By default, the user registering the schema owns the XML schema object. This parameter can be used to register a XML schema to be owned by a different database user. |
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Additional options to specify how the schema should be registered. The various options are represented as bits of an integer and the options parameter should be constructed by doing a
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