NEWDOMDOCUMENT

The NEWDOMDOCUMENT function creates a new, empty DOM document object. You can then set the document version and character set, create a root element, append child nodes, and finally serialize or convert it to an XMLType.

Syntax

DBMS_XMLDOM.newDOMDocument;

Return value

The newly created DBMS_XMLDOM.DOMDOCUMENT handle.

Usage instructions

After creating a document, you typically construct the DOM tree using interfaces such as SETVERSION, SETCHARSET, CREATEELEMENT, and APPENDCHILD. After use, you should call FREEDOCUMENT to release resources.

Examples

DECLARE
  doc DBMS_XMLDOM.DOMDOCUMENT;
BEGIN
  doc := DBMS_XMLDOM.newDOMDocument;
  DBMS_XMLDOM.freeDocument(doc);
END;
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