Error with XML Parsing

Question

Hello,
Getting the following error :
ORA-31011: XML parsing failed
ORA-19202: Error occurred in XML processing
LPX-00217: invalid character 0 (U+0000)
Error at line 1-31011
I have an xml data in a clob and looks like one of the tag has a invalid character due to which the parsing fails. Anyway to get around this issue?
example
DECLARE
l_clob CLOB;
l_xml XMLTYPE;
BEGIN
l_clob := ' <tag>
<tag1>32434234</tag1>
<tag2>junk character</tag2>
</tag>'
l_xml := XMLTYPE(l_clob);
END;
The value has is being populated into the tag1 and tag2 are coming from a oracle type that comes from a different service altogether.
Thanks,
VJ

Answer 1

LPX-00217: invalid character 0 (U+0000)Looks like you have some ASCII 0 characters.
What about if you do
declare
     l_clob clob;
     l_xml  xmltype;
begin
     l_clob := ' <tag>
<tag1>32434234</tag1>
<tag2>junk character</tag2>
</tag>';
     l_xml := xmltype (replace (l_clob, chr (0)));
end;
/??