XMLSERIALIZE
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The XMLSERIALIZE() function allows for serializing XML content into a string type
SELECT xmlserialize(CONTENT xmlelement(NAME 'a') AS VARCHAR) FROM dual
create.select(xmlserializeContent(xmlelement("a"), VARCHAR))
.fetch();
The result would look like this:
+--------------+ | xmlserialize | +--------------+ | <a/> | +--------------+
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
xmlserializeContent(xmlelement("a"), VARCHAR(1000))
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
DB2, Postgres, Teradata
xmlserialize(CONTENT xmlelement(NAME a) AS varchar(1000))
Oracle
xmlserialize(CONTENT xmlelement(NAME a) AS varchar2(1000))
ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, BigQuery, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, SQLite, Snowflake, Sybase, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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