One of the new things in 11g is the possibility to set the method of how to enforce the validation / encoding of your XML document, straight away via embedding these options in your binary XML storage structure. It is just a small entry in the manual, but I think an important one. That’s why I wrote this small post, to emphasize this.
These extra options can be enabled during the creation of your binary XMLType table / column(s).
You have the option to use: