Summary
This chapter introduces XML and Oracle XML DB. The highlights include the XML well-formedness rules, XML encoding, and special characters, which are involved in creating XMLTypes in the Oracle database. In general, you should create XMLTypes with well-formed XML documents, specify the correct XML document encodings, and escape all special characters as necessary.
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