How to get value of sibling node by name?
Question
I am new to OracleServiceBus and XQuery. My requirement is as follows.
'FieldName' element can have values from 'udf1' till 'udf10'
Input XML
<UserDefinedFields>
<UserDefinedField>
<FieldName>udf5</FieldName>
<ValueAsString>UDF5Value</ValueAsString>
</UserDefinedField>
<UserDefinedField>
<FieldName>udf8</FieldName>
<ValueAsString>UDF8Value</ValueAsString>
</UserDefinedField>
<UserDefinedField>
<FieldName>udf3</FieldName>
<ValueAsString>UDF3Value</ValueAsString>
</UserDefinedField>
</UserDefinedFields>
Expected XML
<udf1></udf1>
<udf2></udf2>
<udf3>UDF3Value</udf3>
<udf4></udf4>
<udf5>UDF5Value</udf5>
<udf6></udf6>
<udf7></udf7>
<udf8>UDF8Value</udf8>
<udf9></udf9>
<udf10></udf10>
Any answer will be a great help.
Solution 2
Thanks @Jens Erat.
Following code worked for me.
for $UserDefinedField in $UserDefinedFields/UserDefinedField
for $i in 1 to 20
let $udf := concat('udf', $i)
return if ($UserDefinedField/FieldName = $udf ) then
element {$udf}{data($UserDefinedField/ValueAsString)}
else ()
OTHER TIPS
User computed element constuctors for generating the elements:
for $i in 1 to 10
let $udf := concat('udf', $i)
return element { $udf } { data(//UserDefinedField[FieldName = $udf]/ValueAsString) }
I think Oracle supports them, with MS SQL this would not be possible and you'd have to enumerate all of them:
(
element udf1 { data(//UserDefinedField[FieldName = 'udf1']/ValueAsString),
element udf2 { data(//UserDefinedField[FieldName = 'udf1']/ValueAsString),
(: ... :)
element udf10 { data(//UserDefinedField[FieldName = 'udf10']/ValueAsString)
)
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