32k limit in Reading XML

Question

Hi
My procedure connects to a webservice and gets the data as XML
This is what my code looks like
HTTP_RESP := UTL_HTTP.GET_RESPONSE (HTTP_REQ);
UTL_HTTP.READ_TEXT (HTTP_RESP, SOAP_RESPOND);
SOAP_RESPOND :=
         XMLTYPE (SOAP_RESPOND).
         EXTRACT (
            '/soap:Envelope/soap:Body/Streets_Events_GetResponse/Streets_Events_GetResult/text()',
            'xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/",
                                    xmlns="http://webapi/"').
         GETCLOBVAL ();
      Xml_Result :=
         XMLTYPE (
            DBMS_XMLGEN.CONVERT (SOAP_RESPOND, DBMS_XMLGEN.ENTITY_DECODE));
      INSERT INTO XXHCC_STAGING_XML
           VALUES (Xml_Result, SYSDATE, ' Street_Events_Get SOAP Response');
      COMMIT;It doesnt work sometime and I have a feeling its reaching its 32K limit and not responding. If i give the same parameters the webservice when run individually runs fine, but when i call from SQL plus or any other oracle procedure i get the following error
ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [733], [268431488], [pga heap], [], [], [], [], []Am i right in assuming that from pl/sql it can only read 32K of data and if I long XML document with records being returned it would fail.
Its happening for only certain records and most of the time it works fine, I bring the data with a date range, and when i bring between 2 years it fails as it has got many records around 40-50 records in a xml document.
What is the best alternative to overcome this.
Thanks
Sri

Answer 1

My version is
Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.6.0 - 64bit Production
PL/SQL Release 9.2.0.6.0 - Production
The reason is i m hittting the 64K limit with the XML
In my code
-- SOAP_RESPOND := XMLTYPE(SOAP_RESPOND).EXTRACT('/soap:Envelope/soap:Body/Streets_Events_GetResponse/Streets_Events_GetResult/text()',
--                                    'xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/",
--                                    xmlns="http://webapi/"').GETCLOBVAL();
-- Xml_Result := XMLTYPE(DBMS_XMLGEN.CONVERT(SOAP_RESPOND, DBMS_XMLGEN.ENTITY_DECODE));
        INSERT INTO XXHCC_STAGING_XML VALUES (xmltype(soap_respond), sysdate,'Street_Events_GetLOB SOAP Response' );
        Commit;
          --StResult :=Xml_Result;
          StResult := xmltype(soap_respond);My procedure when run from sql plus works fine, i can see the whole xml output, but the moment i go to TOAD and do a refresh of my staging table i get this
OCI - 31167 XML Nodes over 64K in Size Cannot be InsertedIt works if i store the xml as clob and retrieve it as clob, but the only problem i face is then its not encoded properly.
I have seen in other posts where it says we cannot perform any extract or extractvalue functions on the xmltype.
What is the best way of overcoming this, My procedure displays the xml and another procedure which calls my procedure picks it and shreds into columns.
I m wondering if there is anyway of bypassing this 64k limit
S