On the OTN XMLDB Forum, a question was asked if you could directly select from a XML file on disk, or to be more precise “XQUERY / XMLTABLE Syntax to read and XML from a Windows local drive?“. I had the idea that this could be easily done, nowadays via XMLDB functionality. So I tried it and came to the following conclusions. Although tested on Oracle 11.1.0.6.0 on Windows, this should also work on Oracle 10.2.x.
So as you can read here… It can be very easily done…