XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Wolfgang Hoschek <wolfgang.hoschek AT mac.com>]

> In my case, unfortunately however, the XML document data is stored  
> in a column of type LONG - and Oracle has little to no functions to  
> work on LONG - hence I need to read / stream this data and use an  
> external tool (like NUX, Saxon) to parse this data using Xquery...

I see.
Just run a JDBC SQL query that selects the LONG column of interest,  
iterate over the result set, parse each document with XOM and apply  
XQuery, then do whatever post processing is required. You could use  
Nux for that, but then again, you might not even need any kind of  
XQuery functionality for doing this.

Wolfgang.