December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
928 pages
85h 29m
English
The following calls can be used for most parts of the DOM. The possible values for DOMdatatype are DOMNode, DOMNamedNodeMap, DOMNodeList, DOMAttr, DOMCDateSection, DOMCharacterData, DOMComment, DOMImplementation, DOMDocumentFragment, DOMDocumentType, DOMElement, DOMEntity, DOMEntityRef, DOMNotation, DOMText, and DOMDocument.
FUNCTION DBMS_XMLDOM.isNull
(n IN DOMdatatype)
RETURN BOOLEAN;
Returns whether n is NULL.
FUNCTION DBMS_XMLDOM.makeNode
(n IN DOMdatatype)
RETURN DOMNode;
Creates a node from n and returns a DOMNode. This function can be used for any part of the DOM except for DOMNode, DOMNamedNodeMap, DOMNodeList, and DOMImplementation.