Display HTML stored in the database

Question

Hi
CREATE TABLE source
(sql_text CLOB
The content of sql_text is text surrounded by various HTML-tags.
Which options do I have for displaying sql_text formatted according to the HTML-tags? In other words how can I get apex to send the content of sql_text to the browser with out escaping the tags?
Marius

Answer 1

Since I haven't found a way to list a report (more than one row from the database), I ended up using a Display as Text (does not save state) and the following SQL as source
SELECT CONCATINATION(CURSOR(SELECT somecolumn FROM sometable ORDER BY order_key)) FROM DUAL;
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION CONCATINATION(l_cursor IN SYS_REFCURSOR, seperator IN VARCHAR2 default '<BR>') RETURN clob
IS
string clob;
sub_string clob;
BEGIN
LOOP
FETCH l_cursor INTO sub_string;
EXIT WHEN l_cursor%notfound;
IF l_cursor%ROWCOUNT = 1 THEN
string := sub_string;
ELSE
string := string || seperator || sub_string;
END IF;
END LOOP;
RETURN string;
END;
Edited by: Marius2 on Mar 23, 2009 8:37 PM
Fixed a small bug