Can't omit both the rowset and the row element?

Question

consider the simple document below. Notice that row-element and
rowset-element are both empty, so neither type of element will
be generated. Also notice that the xsql:query tag is embedded in
other tags.
I get "oracle.xml.sql.OracleXMLSQLException: The row enclosing
tag or the row-set enclosing tag is ommitted; consequently to
get a well formed XML document, the result can only consist of a
single row with multiple columns or multiple rows with exactly
one column each." However, in reality the result will be a valid
XML document because I enclosed the query in a single top-level
<table> tag. So the error checking code in the XSQL servlet is
generating a generating a false positive (that is, seeing an
error that isn't there).
My question is, how can I work around this problem? I know I can
let the servlet generate a rowset element and use an XSLT
stylesheet to remove it but is there a another way?
Thanks,
Brian
By the way, the "numbers" table contains the numbers 1-1,000,000
and so it can be used to generate multiple copies of the output
of any query. In this example, I expect to get 55 <th> tags in
the output (yes, my HTML table is really that wide), all nested
in a single <tr> tag which is nested inside a single <table> tag.
<table connection="XXX"
xmlns:xsql="urn:oracle-xsql"
xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<tr><th rowspan='2'>ID</th>
<xsql:query rowset-element=''
row-element=''>
<![CDATA[
SELECT 'fvc'          AS "th"
          , 'fev1'     AS "th"
          , 'fef25_75'     AS "th"
          , 'fev1/fvc'     AS "th"
          , 'vc'          AS "th"
          , 'tlc'          AS "th"
          , 'rv'          AS "th"
          , 'frc_n2'     AS "th"
          , 'frc_pl'     AS "th"
          , 'erv'          AS "th"
          , 'dlco'      AS "th"
     FROM numbers
     WHERE n < 5
]]>
</xsql:query>
</tr>
</table>

Answer 1

In XML, single quotes are equivelent to double quotes. This
enables you to have attribute values like "That's Neat" and
'About 2" Long'.
The problem is that an xsql query can only return a tree as a
fragment (e.g. there must be one root element). I think this is
too restrictive.