Xmlelement function in Oracle

Xmlelement function Oracle usage example:

Select Xmlelement("Empname", Ename) from Emp where ecode = 7654;

It will return XML type data in the following format:

Result
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<Empname>Scott</Empname>

If you want this result in character datatype:

Select Xmlelement("Empname", Ename).getstringval() from Emp where ecode = 7654;

Result will be the same as above but in character string.