Oracle Database 11g Building Oracle XML DB Applications

Creating XML Documents

Users can manage their contacts in XML, without connecting to an Oracle database. These contact XML documents can be stored in a local file system. In practice, you would create an XML Schema file first and use it to create the XML documents. Using Oracle JDeveloper 11g, as discussed in Chapter 16, you can create an XML document from XML schemas. However, when creating the XML documents, note that the XML document format is evolving over time. For example, it’s very common to introduce new XML elements into the XML documents. Therefore, it’s important to review the content in your XML documents, even though they are created based on XML schemas.

In our application, we use the approach discussed in Chapter 6 to extract XPaths ...