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ORA-00904 XMLTYPE ON QUERY USING TABLE ALIAS (Doc ID 2334615.1)

Last updated on APRIL 12, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.2.0.3 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Oracle 12c XML DB XML query fails with ORA-00904 XMLTYPE when using table alias

SELECT COUNT(1)
FROM <table> <alias>, TABLE(xmlsequence(extract(<alias>.xmltype(......), '/..../..../....')));

returns ORA-904

-- run the same query without table alias returns results.

SELECT COUNT(1)
FROM <table>, TABLE(xmlsequence(extract(xmltype(.....), '/..../..../....')));

Changes

 

Cause

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