An important note when loading XSDs in Oracle is that DBMSXMLSCHEMA.registerSchema() requires the actual content of the _xsd is loaded in a string. A side effect is that strings in Oracle have limits and schemas can exceed those limits. Therefore, such strings must be fragmented. In this case, we need to employ PL/SQL. A processed fragment could look something like this:

declare
    vSCHEMA clob;
begin
    -- Concatenate fragments
    vSCHEMA := CONCAT(vSCHEMA, 'long-string-fragment');
    vSCHEMA := CONCAT(vSCHEMA, 'long-string-fragment');


    dbms_xmlschema.registerSchema(
        schemaURL => 'mySchems.xsd',
        schemaDoc => vSCHEMA,
        local => true,
        genTypes => false,
        genTables => true,
        enableHierarchy => dbms_xmlschema.ENABLE_HIERARCHY_NONE
    );

end;

Now, all you need to do is populate the fragments (where I've placed 'long-string-fragment') with the actual content. A rule of thumb I've got is to have a fragment to be roughly 3000 characters.

For my project, I've used a bit of python code to generate my string. A first part is the PL/SQL code (wrapped in python):

INSERT_STR_MULTI = """
declare
    vSCHEMA clob;
begin
    %(segments)s

  dbms_xmlschema.registerSchema(
    schemaURL => '%(name)s',
    schemaDoc => vSCHEMA,
    local => true,
    genTypes => false,
    genTables => true,
    enableHierarchy => dbms_xmlschema.ENABLE_HIERARCHY_NONE
  );

end;
"""

Here, the '%(name)s' is the schema's name and the '%(segments)s' will be replaced with the sequence of vSCHEMA := CONCAT(vSCHEMA, '...');.

The meat is:

xsd_content = open(xsd_path).read()

if len(xsd_content) > 3000:
    print "... Large XML file. Splitting"
    result = ""
    while len(xsd_content) > 3000:

        result += "vSCHEMA := CONCAT(vSCHEMA, '%s');\n" % xsd_content[:3000]
        xsd_content = xsd_content[3000:]

    result += "vSCHEMA := CONCAT(vSCHEMA, '%s');\n" % xsd_content
else:
    result = "vSCHEMA := CONCAT(vSCHEMA, '%s');\n" % xsd_content

insert_str = INSERT_STR_MULTI % \
    {
        'name': xsd_file,
        'segments': result,
    }

cursor.execute(
    insert_str
)
connection.commit()

Few notes:

  • Code can be a bit simplified to avoid CONCAT() on short strings.
  • The 3000 limit is a rule of thumb. The larger the string, the less concatenation operations need to be performed, the quicker the code (ish).

Note: Please refer to the previous article to see e.g. connection setup via cx_oracle

HTH,