Oracle Error ORA-19239: XPTY0019 – It is a type error if the result of an step (other than the last step) in a path expression contains an atomic value

Oracle Error Message

ORA-19239: XPTY0019 – It is a type error if the result of an step (other than the last step) in a path expression contains an atomic value

Reason for the Error

The step expression returned a sequence containing an atomic value.

Solution

Fix the path expression to return only nodes.