Oracle® Database SQL Language Reference 11g Release 1 (11.1) Part Number B28286-01 |
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Syntax
Purpose
XMLCast
casts value_expression
to the scalar SQL datatype specified by datatype
. The value_expression
argument is a SQL expression that is evaluated. The datatype
argument can be of datatype NUMBER
, VARCHAR2
, and any of the datetime datatypes.
See Also:
Oracle XML DB Developer's Guide for more information on uses for this function and examples