Oracle Database 11g Building Oracle XML DB Applications

Sending Emails using Oracle XML DB

In this section, we will enable sending customized emails to selected contacts from the APEX application.

Creating an Email Template

The email content is defined via an email template in XML. The following XML document is an example email template (xmlbook_ann_tpl.xml):

<email_template>

     <attachment>

          <imageContent baseurl=“http://localhost:8081/public/chp17/event/ xmlbook_ann”>

               <image id=“001”>book_cover.jpg</image>

               <image id=“002”>learnmore.gif</image>

          </imageContent>

          <attachedContent>

               <file>sample_chapter.pdf</file>

          </attachedContent>

     </attachment>

     <xsl_content>

     <xsl:stylesheet version=“1.0” xmlns:xsl=“http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/ ...