10g ftp interface seems to mess up embedded namespaces

Question

We have XML documents that are being inserted and retrieved using the resource_view without incident. However, whenever we retrieve these same documents through either the FTP or WebDAV interfaces, the documents come back with embedded namespaces messed up.
For example: this is a document selected through a SQLPlus session (I've removed some of the contents to make it clearer):
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SQL> conn cosmos/cosmos
Connected.
SQL> set pagesize 100
SQL> set linesize 100
SQL> set long 100000
SQL> select extract(res, '/Resource/Contents/*') doc
2 from resource_view
3 where any_path = '/home/cosmos/SampleData/SampleData-100bd32900000005.xml';
DOC
<SampleData xmlns="http://digitalsteps.com/schema/cosmos" xmlns:xsi="http://www.
w3.org/2001/XMLSchem
a-instance" id="/SampleData/SampleData-100bd32900000005" xsi:schemaLocation="htt
p://digitalsteps.com
/schema/cosmos http://cosmos.com/schema/cosmos/SampleData.xsd">
<gam:Metadata xmlns:gam="http://digitalsteps.com/schema/gamma">
<gam:Approved>true</gam:Approved>
<gam:LastUpdatedBy>UNAUTHENTICATED</gam:LastUpdatedBy>
<gam:LastUpdatedTime>2004-12-10T14:08:25.000000</gam:LastUpdatedTime>
<gam:Validated>false</gam:Validated>
<gam:Version>1</gam:Version>
</gam:Metadata>
<Period>
<g:From xmlns:g="http://digitalsteps.com/schema/gamma">2005-01-01</g:From>
<g:To xmlns:g="http://digitalsteps.com/schema/gamma">2005-01-31</g:To>
</Period>
<SampleRef>12545/121/A</SampleRef>
</SampleData>
SQL>
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That same document retrieved through ftp looks like this:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SampleData xmlns="http://digitalsteps.com/schema/cosmos" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" id="/SampleData/SampleData-100bd32900000005" xsi:schemaLocation="http://digitalsteps.com/schema/cosmos http://cosmos.com/schema/cosmos/SampleData.xsd">
<gam:Metadata xmlns:gam="http://digitalsteps.com/schema/gamma">
<gam:Approved>true</gam:Approved>
<gam:LastUpdatedBy>UNAUTHENTICATED</gam:LastUpdatedBy>
<gam:LastUpdatedTime>2004-12-10T14:08:25.000000</gam:LastUpdatedTime>
<gam:Validated>false</gam:Validated>
<gam:Version>1</gam:Version>
</gam:Metadata>
<Period>
<g:From>2005-01-01</g:From>
<g:To>2005-01-31</g:To>
</Period>
<SampleRef>12545/121/A</SampleRef>
</SampleData>
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As you can see, the namespace declaration on the Period element has been dropped leaving a namespace prefix that is now not bound to anything. The document is, needless to say, now invalid.
I suspect that this is a problem caused by having embedded namespaces that are equal but that are using different namespace prefixes, i.e.
xmlns:gam="http://digitalsteps.com/schema/gamma"; and
xmlns:g="http://digitalsteps.com/schema/gamma".
Is this a bug in Oracle 10g's ftp and WebDAV interfaces?

Answer 1

Hi, i've been discussing the problems with the recent driver update here in another thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=12854782#12854782
10.6.5 did come with new kexts (the dates just didn't change because they are using the same directories, but the version numbers for the kexts are all new).
Unfortunately there are no fixes yet - we are hoping that 10.6.6 update will bring new stable drivers, otherwise the fix will be to revert back to 10.6.4