Display blob in bi publisher

Question

I have a report that I"m trying to display an image at runtime. I create the data template, then the word template.
In the word template I have tried:
1. Tried adding the code to the a text form field (form fileld text help)
2. Straight to the word rtf template:
<fo:instream-foreign-object content type="image/gif" height="3 in" width="4 in">
<xsl:value-of select="IMAGE_DATA"/> (also used select="IMAGEDATA"
</fo:instram-foreign-object>
3. also placed the text in #2 above in a property sheet in the word template called Bi PUblisher Properties (Code)
None of these have worked.
the MIME type is image/gif. My data template looks like this:
<dataTemplate name="Image" description="Image" dataSourceRef="DEV">
     <parameters>
          <parameter name="p_image" dataType="character" defaultValue="2393"/>
     </parameters>
     <dataQuery>
          <sqlStatement name="Q1">
               <![CDATA[select PENCMMD.PENCMMD_IMAGE_DATA IMAGE_DATA
from      MYIMAGE.PENCMMD PENCMMD
where       PENCMMD.PENCMMD_CMMD_ID =2393]]>
          </sqlStatement>
     </dataQuery>
     <dataStructure>
          <group name="G_Proposal" source="Q1">
               <element name="ImageData" value="image_data"/>
          </group>
     </dataStructure>
</dataTemplate>

Answer 1

I'm also looking for the same requirement to display a signature(BLOB) field on an existing Data template report but getting the error - '
ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes: expected - got BLOB' when selected the signature field in my select statement. Please guide me into the right direction. Thanks.