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Oracle® Database SQL Language Reference
11g Release 1 (11.1)

Part Number B28286-01
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XMLCAST

Syntax

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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