Article:		What's New in JDBC 4.0?
Subject:		Bad example for SQLXML
Date:		2007-05-25 04:58:43
From:		jukka_zitting
Your example for getting an SQLXML column and building a DOM tree for it would work just as well with a normal BLOB column. The really powerful mechanism (as explained in the SQLXML javadocs) is: DOMSource domSource = sqlxml.getSource(DOMSource.class); Document document = (Document) domSource.getNode();