Select xml element value in Oracle

Question

I am trying to extract a value from an xml element, located in an XMLTYPE column in an Oracle Table. The xml element which I am trying to extract have a parent for which a n

Answer 1

When the default namespace changes, one way to specify namespaces is to write the wildcard character ('*') and the local-name() and namespace-uri() XPath functions.

select extract(myColumn, '/a/*[local-name()='b' and namespace-uri()='urn:www.someSite.com/myModel']/*[local-name()='c' and namespace-uri()='urn:www.someSite.com/myModel']') from myTable