Binding list variable

Today I was working with XMLType, and as a side effect I found interesting solution to transform list of values contained in single string to rows. You can find some solutions on Tom Kyte blog. But my solution is new approach that uses xmlType and xmlSequence

SQL> var list varchar2(200)
SQL> exec :list := '2,4,6,8,10,34,33';

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL> select items.extract('/l/text()').getStringVal() item
  2  from table(xmlSequence(
  3    extract(XMLType('<all><l>'||
  4      replace(:list,',','</l><l>')||'</l></all>')
  5          ,'/all/l'))) items;

ITEM                                                                            
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2                                                                               
4                                                                               
6                                                                               
8                                                                               
10                                                                              
34                                                                              
33                                                                              

7 rows selected.

Simple! Isn’t it?
Cheers, Paweł