XML data type question

[tomasjura]

Hi Kubo

Is it planned support for the XML data type (https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/lnoci/oci-support-for-xml.html)? How difficult would be to implement this feature? (A dream is an integration with Nokogiri library without XML serialization and parsing.)

I know that any time the input bind parameter can be wrapped by XMLTYPE constructor, but it is annoying to to write this cast for each case.

A longer story:
Oracle has a very good support for XML processing ( XSLT , XQuery 3.0 with update facility, xmldiff , ... ). I would like to give a simple access of those features for my users. Unfortunately no existing user interactive client supports the binding of XML (CLOB) from an external file, which makes usage of those functionalities even more difficult for big XMLs. The situation with Python is the same. Seems that only JDBC supports the XML bindings. But JDBC does not support named parameters (bindings) which are nice for an interactive usage.

[kubo]

No plans.

I tried it and removed it by f2a64c8 about 13 years ago.
I don't remember why I gave up.

Here is the code just before it was removed.
https://github.com/kubo/ruby-oci8/blob/0bb6cd3/ext/oci8/xmldb.c
It looks that it tried to create REXML objects from xmlnode in oci8_make_rexml().