When XMLDescribeType=blob, the driver returns XML data as binary data. The result set column is described with a column type of BLOB and the column type name is xml.

When XMLDescribeType=blob, your application can use the following methods to return XML data as binary data:

  • ResultSet.getBytes()
  • ResultSet.getBinaryStream()
  • ResultSet.getBlob()
  • ResultSet.getObject()
  • CallableStatement.getBytes()
  • CallableStatement.getBlob()
  • CallableStatement.getObject()

The driver does not apply any data conversions to the XML data returned from the database server. These methods return a byte array or binary stream that contains the XML data encoded as UTF-8.

When XMLDescribeType=clob, your application should not use any of the methods for returning binary data described in this section. In this case, the driver applies the standard JDBC binary-to-character conversion to the data, which returns the hexadecimal representation of the binary data.