XML file load into Oracle table

Greetings,

I found the following example on how to load XMl file into Oracle table from the experts  site.
However, when I tried to replicate this example in my environment it didn't work and few errors were identified.
Here is my questions:
1. is this still the simplest solution for loading xml file into Oracle
2. Please respond to the errors I found using these scripts:
a). -- get a handle to the xml file on the OS
  xmlfile := Bfilename(dirname,filename); I used utl_file_dir instead of "CREATE DIRECTORY XML_DIR AS 'c:\ash';" as it was suggested
As a result
next statement "DBMS_LOB.fileOpen(xmlfile); " has the following  exception
ORA-22285: non-existent directory or file for FILEOPEN operation
b).   I had a compile error for the following statement
xmlgen.resetOptions;
error - PLS-00201: identifier 'XMLGEN.RESETOPTIONS' must be declared
3. are there any other examples I can have for load xml file into Oracle table ?

Following is the example I used:


  -- open the file  
  DBMS_LOB.fileOpen(xmlfile);


Pre-requisites
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- Oracle RDBMS version is 8.1.6 or higher.
- Oracle JServer is installed.
- XML-SQL (XSU) Utility is installed.
 
XML file ( example.xml )
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The <ROWSET> tag specifies the default tag name for the document.
The <ROW> tag specifies the default tag name for the ROW elements.
 
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - File begins here - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
<ROWSET>
<ROW>
<DOCID> 91739.1 </DOCID>
<SUBJECT> MTS: ORA-29855, DRG-50704, ORA-12154: on create index using Intermedia </SUBJECT>
<TYPE> PROBLEM </TYPE>
<CONTENT_TYPE> TEXT/PLAIN </CONTENT_TYPE>
<STATUS> PUBLISHED </STATUS>
<CREATION_DATE> 14-DEC-1999 </CREATION_DATE>
<LAST_REVISION_DATE> 05-JUN-2000 </LAST_REVISION_DATE>
<LANGUAGE> USAENG </LANGUAGE>
</ROW>
</ROWSET>
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - File ends here - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 
How to Read XML File Stored in Clob Column and Extract Data to Different Table
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1. Create directory object mapped to physical directory which contain the XML file.
Note: Oracle user should have (at least) read permission for the directory and the XML file.
 
CREATE DIRECTORY XML_DIR AS 'c:\ash';
 
2. Create a table containing a CLOB and insert a row for the XML file.
XML_CLOB stores the xml document in a clob column,  
 
CREATE TABLE xml_clob(
docname    VARCHAR2(100) PRIMARY KEY,
doc        CLOB,
insertdate DATE DEFAULT SYSDATE);
 
3. Create PL/SQL procedure to insert the example.xml file into the  
database table xml_clob.  
 
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE insertXML (dirname IN VARCHAR2,  
                                      filename IN VARCHAR2)
IS
  xmlfile BFILE;
  myclob  CLOB;
BEGIN
  INSERT INTO xml_clob (docname, doc)  
  VALUES (filename, empty_clob())
  RETURNING doc into myclob;  
   
  -- get a handle to the xml file on the OS
  xmlfile := Bfilename(dirname,filename);
 
  -- open the file  
  DBMS_LOB.fileOpen(xmlfile);
 
  -- copy the contents of the file into the empty clob
  DBMS_LOB.loadFromFile(myclob, xmlfile, dbms_lob.getLength(xmlfile));
 
END insertXML;
 
4. Create a table into which the XML document data has to be loaded after reading it from  
the XML_CLOB table. Note that the column names of the table should match the XML tags.
 
CREATE TABLE XML_DOC (
DOCID         VARCHAR2(10),
SUBJECT       VARCHAR2(100),
TYPE          VARCHAR2(20),
CONTENT_TYPE  VARCHAR2(20),
STATUS        VARCHAR2(20),
CREATION_DATE VARCHAR2(15),
LAST_REVISION_DATE VARCHAR2(15),
LANGUAGE      VARCHAR2(10)
);
 
 
5. Create procedure to read XML stored in clob column of the xml_clob table, and
load extracted data into XML_DOC table.  
 
 
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE loadxml1 AS
  fil    clob;
  buffer varchar2(1000);
  len    INTEGER;
  insrow INTEGER;
BEGIN
  SELECT doc INTO fil FROM xml_clob WHERE docname='example.xml';
 
  len := DBMS_LOB.GETLENGTH(fil);
  DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('length '||len);
 
  DBMS_LOB.READ(fil,len,1,buffer);
  xmlgen.resetOptions;
  insrow := xmlgen.insertXML('xml_doc',buffer);
  DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('length ins '||insrow);
 
 EXCEPTION
  WHEN OTHERS THEN
  DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('In Exception');
  DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(SQLERRM(SQLCODE));
 
end;