Oracle in a Nutshell

DOM character data methods

FUNCTION DBMS_XMLDOM.getData (cd IN DOMCharacterData) RETURN VARCHAR2;

Returns character data for cd.

FUNCTION DBMS_XMLDOM.setData (cd IN DOMCharacterData, data IN VARCHAR2);

Sets character data for cd to data.

FUNCTION DBMS_XMLDOM.getLength (cd IN DOMCharacterData) RETURN NUMBER;

Returns the number of 16-bit units available through data and substringData( ) method for cd.

FUNCTION DBMS_XMLDOM.substringData (cd IN DOMCharacterData, offset IN NUMBER, cnt IN NUMBER) RETURN VARCHAR2;

Returns data from cd from offset for cnt characters.

PROCEDURE DBMS_XMLDOM.appendData (cd IN DOMCharacterData, arg IN VARCHAR2);

Appends arg to cd.

PROCEDURE DBMS_XMLDOM.insertData (cd IN DOMCharacterData, offset IN NUMBER, arg IN VARCHAR2);

Inserts arg to cd at position offset.

PROCEDURE DBMS_XMLDOM.deleteData (cd IN DOMCharacterData, offset IN NUMBER, cnt IN NUMBER);

Deletes cnt characters from cd at position offset.

PROCEDURE DBMS_XMLDOM.replaceData (cd IN DOMCharacterData, offset IN NUMBER, cnt IN NUMBER, arg IN VARCHAR2);

Replaces cnt characters with arg to cd at position offset.