Question

In Oracle, you can write:

update t set xml = updateXML(xml, '/a/b/text()', 'gaga') 

This works only if you already have some text in the <b> element. How to update the document and ‘add some text’ in <b> if the document in the database looks like:

<a>     <b/> </a> 

Answer 1

Here is one way to do it:

update t set xml = updateXML(xml, '/a/b', XMLType('<b>gaga</b>')) 

I don’t find this very elegant, but I am not sure you can do better.