What's New in the XML C APIs?

This section describes new features in Oracle Database XML C API Reference and supplies pointers to additional information.

New Features for Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2)

The following features are new to the Oracle Database 11g Release 2:

Orastream Interface

The orastream package handles large (over 64K) text and binary nodes in XML documents.

Information about this feature is in Chapter Chapter 5, "Package Orastream APIs for C" . Additionally, these new datatypes have been documented in Chapter 1, "Datatypes for C":

• oracheck

• oraerr

• oraprop_id

• oramemctx

• oraprop

• oraprop_t

• oraprop_v

• orastream

• orastreamhdl

New Features for Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1)

The following features are new to the Oracle Database 11g Release 1:

DOM Stream Access to XML Nodes and Attributes

Information about this feature is in the chapter Chapter 3, "Package DOM APIs for C". In includes support for the following functions:

• XmlDomGetPullNodeAsBinaryStream()

• XmlDomGetPullNodeAsCharacterStream()

• XmlDomGetPushNodeAsBinaryStream()

• XmlDomGetPushNodeAsCharacterStream()

• XmlDomSetPullNodeAsBinaryStream()

• XmlDomSetPullNodeAsCharacterStream()

• XmlDomSetPushNodeAsBinaryStream()

• XmlDomSetPushNodeAsCharacterStream()

Node Management

The following functions update the name of the specified node.

• XmlDomRenameNode()

• XmlDomRenameNodeNS()

XML Diff Support

Information about this feature is in the new Chapter 12, "Package XmlDiff APIs for C". It includes support for the following functions:

• XmlDiff()

• XmlHash()

• XmlPatch()

Event-based XML Pull Parsing and Scalable and High Performance XML Validation

Information about this feature is in the new Chapter 4, "Package Event APIs for C".