Parse THIS!!! XML can't contain HTML (anchor tags)???

[jpollar]

Is there a way to parse XML that has HTML tags and special characters within it?

I've been searching for days for a solution with no joy.
The Oracle scripts I wrote below work fine as long as only alphanumeric characters are in the XML doc.

Here's what I'm doing...I'm page scraping several dynamic websites using ColdFusion. I remove all the unneeded HTML...and replace the remaining HTML with XML tags.

I then want to pass this XML (attached txt file) variable (cfxml) to Oracle so it can be parsed and loaded into the database. If I remove the anchor tags and the CDATA tags...the code works fine....but I want the anchor tags loaded into my table.

Anyone have any suggestions....preferably a solution so I can stop pulling my damn hair out.

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Oracle Scripts
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create or replace procedure LoadXML (cfxml in varchar) AS
begin
insert into JOBS (xmldoc) values
(xmltype.createxml(cfxml));
end;

create or replace trigger job_bifert as
begin
if (:new.xmldoc is null) then
return;
end if;
select
xmltype.getstringval(:new.xmldoc.extract('/recordset/row/title/text()')),
xmltype.getstringval(:new.xmldoc.extract('/recordset/row/company/text()')),
xmltype.getstringval(:new.xmldoc.extract('/recordset/row/location/text()'))
into :new.title, :new.company, :new.location
from dual;
end;