Error in inserting Japanese charcters into XMLDB -[b]Urgent[/b]

Question

Hi,
I have set database charcterset as 'UTF-8' and I saved the xml file in server with 'UTF-8' encoding, the inerstion works for english, but if I inlucde japanese charcters I get the following error (please find below), we use Oracle 9i for developement.Since this is very urgent and critical,kindly help us, we are thankful for the earlier responses got for our diferent queries.
This is XML Schema we registered.
XML SCHEMA:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xs:schema id="Dp_Pref_mst" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata">
<xs:element name="PrefMaster">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:choice maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xs:element name="StateDetails">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="Pref_code" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" />
<xs:element name="Pref_desc" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" />
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:choice>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:schema>
Schema registration:
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begin
dbms_xmlschema.registerSchema( 'sample.xsd', getFileContent('sample.xsd','DP','UTF8'));
end;
Table creation :
===============
Create table states of XMLType XMLSCHEMA "sample.xsd" ELEMENT "PrefMaster";
This is XML we try to insert
XML :
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<PrefMaster xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="sample.xsd">
<StateDetails>
<Pref_code>1</Pref_code>
<Pref_desc>小川鐵工所</Pref_desc>
</StateDetails>
<StateDetails>
<Pref_code>2</Pref_code>
<Pref_desc>Honshu</Pref_desc>
</StateDetails>
<StateDetails>
<Pref_code>3</Pref_code>
<Pref_desc>Nagasaki</Pref_desc>
</StateDetails>
<StateDetails>
<Pref_code>4</Pref_code>
<Pref_desc>Osaka</Pref_desc>
</StateDetails>
</PrefMaster>
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION getFileContent(filename varchar2,directoryName varchar2 default USER,
charset varchar2 default 'AL32UTF8')
return CLOB
is
fileContent CLOB := NULL;
file bfile := bfilename(directoryName,filename);
dest_offset number := 1;
src_offset number := 1;
lang_context number := 0;
conv_warning number := 0;
begin
DBMS_LOB.createTemporary(fileContent,true,DBMS_LOB.SESSION);
DBMS_LOB.fileopen(file, DBMS_LOB.file_readonly);
DBMS_LOB.loadClobfromFile
fileContent,
file,
DBMS_LOB.getLength(file),
dest_offset,
src_offset,
nls_charset_id(charset),
lang_context,
conv_warning
DBMS_LOB.fileclose(file);
return fileContent;
end;
our insert statement
====================
Insert into states values (XMLType(getFileContent('sample.xml','DP','UTF8')));
The error we are getting
=======================
Error
=====
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-31011: XML parsing failed
ORA-19202: Error occurred in XML processing
LPX-00210: expected '<' instead of '¿'
Error at line 1
ORA-06512: at "SYS.XMLTYPE", line 0
ORA-06512: at line 1
Any help in resolving this would be highly appriciated.
Thank you
Kathiresan.

Answer 1

COMMIT is an SQL command and I don't think it will have any effect on you dataset. I think this should work:
FORM f_write_aufk.
  CLEAR: gv_error, gv_reccnt, gv_t_amt, gv_t_qty,
  gv_t_docs, gv_previous_rec_id, gv_passcnt.
*--------Open in compress mode ----------------------------------------*
  DATA: gc_commit dafault '1000'.
  OPEN DATASET lv_file FOR OUTPUT IN TEXT MODE ENCODING DEFAULT FILTER
          'compress'.
  IF sy-subrc = 0.
    SELECT aufnr auart autyp ernam aenam aedat ktext
    FROM aufk INTO gs_aufk
    WHERE aufnr IN s_aufnr.
      PERFORM f_transfer_dataset
        USING p_f_aufk gs_aufk CHANGING gv_error.
    ENDSELECT.
    PERFORM f_closedataset USING p_f_aufk CHANGING gv_error.
  ENDIF.
ENDFORM.                    "F_WRITE_AUFK
Rob