Cannot use "declare function" in XMLQuery statement

Question

Hi All,
I'm using Oracle 11g. In a SQL*Plus terminal, if I enter, say:
select XMLQUERY('
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passing (XMLTYPE('<dummy />')) returning content) from dual;
I get, as expected, "1" as an answer. Now, if instead I enter the following code:
select XMLQUERY('
declare function local:one($arg) {
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local:one(.)
passing (XMLTYPE('<dummy />')) returning content) from dual;
I get, instead:
ERROR: ORA-01756: quoted string not properly terminated
By entering the statement line by line, I see that the error is raised when reaching the "};". I'm sure this XQuery statement is correct (I've validated it in OxygenXML). What am I doing wrongly?
Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

add (: :) after };
semicolon is the sql terminator.