DBXML errors

Question

Anyone seen these errors ? trying out dbxml. All OWA,PLSQL packages are compiled fine...no invalids etc....
SQL> execute dbxml.query('select * from tab$');
BEGIN dbxml.query('select * from tab$'); END;
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error
ORA-06512: at "SYS.OWA_UTIL", line 318
ORA-06512: at "SYS.OWA_UTIL", line 355
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBXML", line 121
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBXML", line 1367
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBXML", line 1826
ORA-06512: at line 1
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Answer 1

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Sukhjit Bassi ([email protected]):
Anyone seen these errors ? trying out dbxml. All OWA,PLSQL packages are compiled fine...no invalids etc....
SQL> execute dbxml.query('select * from tab$');
BEGIN dbxml.query('select * from tab$'); END;
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error
ORA-06512: at "SYS.OWA_UTIL", line 318
ORA-06512: at "SYS.OWA_UTIL", line 355
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBXML", line 121
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBXML", line 1367
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBXML", line 1826
ORA-06512: at line 1<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
IMO this error is wrong initialization of htp package.
I don't know which toolkits is included into Oracle 8.1.7, but probably is a same as IAS toolkit.
In this case to use htp.print or htp.prn procedure first needs call to htp.init procedure.
For example:
begin
htp.init;
htp.print('Hellow world');
htp.flush;
owa_util.showpage;
end;
Also probably there are more errors because the bad initialization of owa package.
Owa package is not designed to use by sql plus command line interface. Try with IAS or XSQL owa call.
Best regards, Marcelo.
PD: owa_util 318 line is a line which contain access to owa.cgi_var_name array, this array is filled by IAS/OAS before the procedure call, then, using SQL Plus this array is empty.
Steve: This is not an error of dbxml package.