Display XML Document from CLOB Column on page

Question

Hi,
I have been reading all the CLOB postings that I can find, but I still cannot get my page to do what I want.
I have a very simjple table:
MF_XML_DOCS (DOC_ID NUMBER, DOC_XML CLOB)
I can populate this table OK but I am having problems getting the cotent back out. I want a simple page that takes an ID Number and displays the XML Document for that ID (select doc_xml from mf_xml_docs where doc_id = :P1_DOC_ID). Everything I try either truncates the text (or errors) at 4000 or 32767 characters or reads the XML tags as tags and does not display them. I want a simple display of the XML Document (and I don't mind if it is in an 'updateable' field or not):
<Parent>
   <name>Dad</name>
   <Children>
      <Child>
         <name>Number 1 Son</name>
     </Child>
      <Child>
         <name>Number 2 Son</name>
     </Child>
   </children>
</Parent>But when I do something that works for large (32767+) documents all I see is 'Dad Number 1 Son Number 2 Son'.
Help!!
many thanks,
Martin

Answer 1

Have you tried simply outputting iusing the htp.p function? for example:
/* ... inside a PL/SQL region */
declare
   lclb_output clob;
begin
   select doc_xml into lclb_output from mf_xml_docs where doc_id = :P1_DOC_ID;
   htp.p(lclb_output); -- you may have to split this into chunks and loop through, depending on how big the clob is
end;