Use the parse() method to insert an XML document, which takes the XML document as the argument and returns sybase.aseutils.SybXmlStream.
Adaptive Server has an implicit mapping between image or text data and InputStream. You can pass image or text columns to parse() without doing any casting. The parse() UDF parses the document and returns sybase.ase.SybXmlStream, which Adaptive Server uses to write the data to the image column. Adaptive Server writes this data to image columns only, not to text columns. The following is an insert statement; where XMLDAT is an image column:
insert XMLDAT
values (.., com.sybase.xml.xql.Xql.parse(“<xmldoc></xmldoc>”,..))
