I have a long text written in HTML:
<body>
<h2>title 1</h2>
<h2>This is an <b>important</b> title</h2>
Some text
<h3>This a subtitle b</h3>
<h3>This is also <span style="font-weight:500">important</span></h3>
</body>
I need to extract the titles from it to create a Table of Content. I expect the result as:
h2 Title 1
h2 This is an <b>important</b> title
h3 This a subtitle b
h3 This is also <span style="font-weight:500">important</span>
or:
h2 Title 1
h2 This is an important title
h3 This a subtitle b
h3 This is also important
I tried:
select * from xmltable('body/*' passing xmltype('<body><h2>title 1</h2><h2>This is an <b>important</b> title</h2>Some text<h3>This a subtitle b</h3><h3>This is also <span style="font-weight:500">important</span></h3></body>')
columns
tag_name varchar2(1000) path 'name()',
tag_value varchar2(1000) path 'text()')
where tag_name in ('h1','h2','h3','h4','h5')
But I'm getting the error:
ORA-19279: XPTY0004 - XQuery dynamic type mismatch: expected singleton sequence - got multi-item sequence
19279. 00000 - "XPTY0004 - XQuery dynamic type mismatch: expected singleton sequence - got multi-item sequence"
*Cause: The XQuery sequence passed in had more than one item.
*Action: Correct the XQuery expression to return a single item sequence.
How can I solve that?
Would this work as the output?
TAG_NAME TAG_VALUE
-------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
h2 <h2>title 1</h2>
h2 <h2>This is an <b>important</b> title</h2>
h3 <h3>This a subtitle b</h3>
h3 <h3>This is also <span style="font-weight:500">important</span></h3>
This makes more sense to me - then let whatever xml tools you work with interpret the tag values as needed. (They may require that the tag values be xmltype
data type - if so, then simply remove the xmlserialize
wrapper in the select
clause.)
If that's acceptable, you can get it with a small modification of your query.
select tag_name, xmlserialize(document tag_value) as tag_value
from xmltable('body/*' passing xmltype('<body><h2>title 1</h2>
<h2>This is an <b>important</b> title</h2>Some text<h3>This a subtitle b</h3>
<h3>This is also <span style="font-weight:500">important</span></h3></body>')
columns
tag_name varchar2(1000) path 'name()',
tag_value xmltype path '.')
where tag_name in ('h1','h2','h3','h4','h5')
;