Hi Chris >i just recieved an xsd from a .net developer that tells me how to >create a series of dml statements to extract data out of an xml >document through extractvalue() > >i'd hate to manually do this. ...automating that myself is above my >abilities at this point (it seems like a regular expression problem >but i won't pretend to have a clue). ...i'v been asking lots of >questions here lately so i guess another one (or two) won't hurt: > >is this something that occurs frequently when xml is to be loaded into >relational tables? are there tools/scripts that automate this? If the mapping is simple, XSU (a command line utility provided with XDK) could be a solution. Here an example on how you can load a XML file... -- my input file oracle@trantor:/tmp/ [A1020] cat dept.xml <?xml version = '1.0'?> <ROWSET> <ROW num="1"> <DEPTNO>10</DEPTNO> <DNAME>ACCOUNTING</DNAME> <LOC>NEW YORK</LOC> </ROW> <ROW num="2"> <DEPTNO>20</DEPTNO> <DNAME>RESEARCH</DNAME> <LOC>DALLAS</LOC> </ROW> <ROW num="3"> <DEPTNO>30</DEPTNO> <DNAME>SALES</DNAME> <LOC>CHICAGO</LOC> </ROW> <ROW num="4"> <DEPTNO>40</DEPTNO> <DNAME>OPERATIONS</DNAME> <LOC>BOSTON</LOC> </ROW> </ROWSET> -- set environment export CLASSPATH=${ORACLE_HOME}/lib/xsu12.jar:${ORACLE_HOME}/lib/xmlparserv2.jar:${ORACLE_HOME}/jdbc/lib/ojdbc14.jar:${ORACLE_HOME}/rdbms/jlib/xdb.jar -- run XSU oracle@trantor:/tmp/ [A1020] java OracleXML putXML -user scott/tiger -fileName dept.xml dept successfully inserted 4 rows into dept For more information refer to "Oracle XML Developer's Kit Programmer's Guide". HTH Chris New Features Oracle Database 10g Release 2 seminars @ www.trivadis.com Italiano: Lugano (24-Nov) Français: Genève (17-Nov) Deutsch: Zürich (11-Oct), Hamburg (13-Oct), München (20-Oct), Basel (25-Oct), Frankfurt (27-Oct), Bern (8-Nov), Düsseldorf (23-Nov), Stuttgart (13-Dec) -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l