Escaping ampersand

How can I include an & ampersand on a query?
CASE
     WHEN vw_lui.cod_tipo_documento = 'A' THEN 'Sem limite de tempo de utiliza\ç\ão para todos os produtos'
     WHEN vw_lui.cod_tipo_documento = 'B' THEN 'Sem limite de tempo de utiliza\ç\ão para determinado(s) produto(s)'
     WHEN vw_lui.cod_tipo_documento = 'C' THEN 'Limite de tempo de utiliza\ç\ão negociável'
END AS AS descricao_lui
The query is running inside a procedure.
I've already tried with: SET DEFINE ~, SET ESCAPE '\' and SET SCAN OFF, with no success.

This thread should help: Ampersand help
'||chr(38)||'
CASE
WHEN vw_lui.cod_tipo_documento = 'A' THEN 'Sem limite de tempo de utiliza'||chr(38)||'ccedil;'||chr(38)||'atilde;o para todos os produtos'
WHEN vw_lui.cod_tipo_documento = 'B' THEN 'Sem limite de tempo de utiliza'||chr(38)||'ccedil;'||chr(38)||'atilde;o para determinado(s) produto(s)'
WHEN vw_lui.cod_tipo_documento = 'C' THEN 'Limite de tempo de utiliza'||chr(38)||'ccedil;'||chr(38)||'atilde;o negociável'
END AS AS descricao_lui
Maybe this will work?
Jim P.
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Hi tsuji,
Interesting discussion, really, but I fail to see how the way we're generating the XMLType instance in the first place is important for any subsequent transformation.
You said :
That part is well noticed. And that precisely poses problem.and,
[6.2] But the working (at least for this sample) of the latter but not the former using xmltype() precisely pose the problem of either xmltype().transform() implementation contains bug [...]Could you explain again what you think works and what doesn't?
I may be missing something but all these appear to work correctly :
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3 <xsl:output method="text"/>
4 <xsl:template match="/">Hello <xsl:value-of select="//name"/>
5 </xsl:template>
6 </xsl:stylesheet>';
7 end;
8 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed
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3 , :xsldoc
4 ).getclobval() as result
5 from dual
6 ;
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5 from dual
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2 '<test><name>Jane&John Doe</name></test>'
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4 from dual
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Hello Jane&John Doe
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3 ).transform(xmltype(:xsldoc)).getclobval() as result
4 from dual
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In any case, you know well there is a something fishy going on, one way of looking at it or another.Yes, I agree. For sure, Oracle XSLT processors are not bug-free.
For the case we're looking at now, the essence of the XMLType datatype is probably more to blame than the XSLT processor though.
A little off-topic addendum about the method="html" output :
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3 ),'<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
4 <xsl:output method="html" encoding="iso-8859-15" indent="yes"/>
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7 </xsl:stylesheet>').getclobval()
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9 from dual;
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</meta>
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<body>
Jane&John Doe
</body>
</html>
Not perfect but the method seems supported too.
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============
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-----------------cut----------------------
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sdhfjsdhf
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--RiC

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ISvar_translated_text clob;BEGIN
select  replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(re place(replace(
  replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(re place(replace
  (replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(r eplace(replace
  (replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(r eplace(replace
  (replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(r eplace(replace
  (replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(r eplace(replace
  (replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(r eplace(replace
  (replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(r eplace(replace
  (replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(r eplace(replace
  (replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(
var_text , chr(38) || 'lt;', chr(60))
  , chr(38) || 'gt;', chr(62))
  , chr(38) || 'euro;', chr(49792))
  , chr(38) || 'iexcl;', chr(49825))
  , chr(38) || 'cent;', chr(49826))
  , chr(38) || 'pound;', chr(49827))
  , chr(38) || 'curren;', chr(49828))
  , chr(38) || 'yen;', chr(49829))
  , chr(38) || 'brvbar;', chr(49830))
  , chr(38) || 'uml;', chr(49832))
  , chr(38) || 'copy;', chr(49833))
  , chr(38) || 'ordf;', chr(49834))
  , chr(38) || 'laquo;', chr(49835))
  , chr(38) || 'not;', chr(49836))
  , chr(38) || 'shy;', chr(49837))
  , chr(38) || 'reg;', chr(49838))
  , chr(38) || 'macr;', chr(49839))
  , chr(38) || 'deg;', chr(49840))
  , chr(38) || 'plusmn;', chr(49841))
  , chr(38) || 'sup2;', chr(49842))
  , chr(38) || 'sup3;', chr(49843))
  , chr(38) || 'acute;', chr(49844))
  , chr(38) || 'micro;', chr(49845))
  , chr(38) || 'para;', chr(49846))
  , chr(38) || 'middot;', chr(49847))
  , chr(38) || 'cedil;', chr(49848))
  , chr(38) || 'sup1;', chr(49849))
  , chr(38) || 'ordm;', chr(49850))
  , chr(38) || 'raquo;', chr(49851))
  , chr(38) || 'frac14;', chr(49852))
  , chr(38) || 'frac12;', chr(49853))
  , chr(38) || 'frac34;', chr(49854))
  , chr(38) || 'iquest;', chr(49855))
  , chr(38) || 'Agrave;', chr(50048))
  , chr(38) || 'Aacute;', chr(50049))
  , chr(38) || 'Acirc;', chr(50050))
  , chr(38) || 'Atilde;', chr(50051))
  , chr(38) || 'Auml;', chr(50052))
  , chr(38) || 'Aring;', chr(50053))
  , chr(38) || 'AElig;', chr(50054))
  , chr(38) || 'Ccedil;', chr(50055))
  , chr(38) || 'Egrave;', chr(50056))
  , chr(38) || 'Eacute;', chr(50057))
  , chr(38) || 'Ecirc;', chr(50058))
  , chr(38) || 'Euml;', chr(50059))
  , chr(38) || 'Igrave;', chr(50060))
  , chr(38) || 'Iacute;', chr(50061))
  , chr(38) || 'Icirc;', chr(50062))
  , chr(38) || 'Iuml;', chr(50063))
  , chr(38) || 'ETH;',

I also stuck with this . Still no answer, no solution

Problem with display of ampersand in reports

I enter the following text into a "notes" item on a page:
Send request to AT&T.
When I use this notes item in a report the following is displayed:
Send request to AT
Note the ampersand and the T are missing.
If I remove the period at the end of the note:
Send request to AT&T
The report displays properly:
Send request to AT&T
If I append text to the original note like this:
Send request to AT&T for test.
The report note will display properly:
Send request to AT&T for test.
The issue seems caused by the period following AT&T. This is APEX 3.2.1.00.12.
Besides the work around of editing the text, does anyone know what else might fix the problem?

Doesn't appear to be anything out of the ordinary there.
The obvious solution is to escape the ampersand, which will stop it being specially treated by either APEX or HTML:
SELECT n.note_id, l.lce_type, htf.escape_sc(n.note) note, n.created_by, n.created_date, n.last_updated_by, n.last_updated
FROM ticket_lces l, lce_notes n
WHERE l.ticket_id = :P33_TICKET_ID
AND l.lce_id = n.lce_idAlthough I'm not sure why this is necessary. Can't say I've come across a report column doing this before...
Standard or interactive report?
If it's a standard report: What is the Display As property of the <tt>note</tt> column? Is there any post-query manipulation of the <tt>note</tt> column in the report: HTML Expression, Link etc?

SQL*Plus: list of characters that need to be escaped

Hi all,
We have a requirement where we need to add comments to tables and table columns and this is done using SQL*Plus. I understand that there are some special characters that are interpreted by SQL*Plus such as ampersand (&). I would like to know the list of such characters so that we can escape them before passing it on to CREATE COMMENT ON statement. So far we have identified the following special characters:
The following characters need to be escaped no matter where they are present in the comment
single quote "'" (hex 27)
define "&" (hex 26)
sqlterminator ";" (hex 3b)
The following characters need to be escaped when they are the only character on a line
forward slash "/" (hex 2f)
blockterminator "." (hex 2e)
sqlprefix "#" (hex 23)
The following characters need to escaped if they are followed by a newline
line continuation "-" (hex 2d)
We would like to know if there are other special characters and appreciate if someone can provide the list.
Thanks
Edited by: user779842 on Aug 20, 2009 3:37 AM
Edited by: user779842 on Aug 20, 2009 3:55 AM

I think the only two characters you need to worry about in your comment strings are: ' and & (apostrophe/single quote and ampersand). The latter you can get around by doing:
set define offbefore running your statements, but the apostrophe you'll have to double up to allow oracle to recognise that it's not the end of the string. Eg:
I'm a stringwould become
'I''m a string' -- NB. this is two single quotes, not 1 double quote!or, if you're on 10g or above, you can use the quote operator (q):
select q'#I'm a string#' from dual;See the documentation for what characters can be used as the quote delimiters: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/appdev.102/b14251/adfns_sqltypes.htm#sthref377

XML Parsing attributes with encoded ampersand causes wrong order

Hi all,
I am writing in the forum first (because it could be that i am doing something wrong.... but i think it is a bug. Nonetheless, i thought i'd write my problem up here first.
I am using Java 6, and this has been reproduced on both windows and linux.
java version "1.6.0_03"
Problem:
read XML file into org.w3c.dom.Document.
XML File has some attributes which contain ampersand. These are escaped as (i think) is prescribed by the rule of XML. For example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <lang>
 <text dna="8233" ro="chisturi de plex coroid (>=1.5 mm)" it="Cisti del plesso corioideo(>=1.5mm)" tr="Koroıd pleksus kisti (>=1.5 mm)" pt_br="Cisto do plexo coróide (>=1,5 mm)" de="Choroidplexus Zyste (>=1,5 mm)" el="Κύστει&sigmaf; χοροειδού&sigmaf; πλέγματο&sigmaf; (>= 1.5 mm)" zh_cn="脉络膜囊肿（>= 1.5 mm）" pt="Quisto do plexo coroideu (>=1,5 mm)" bg="Киста на хориоидния плексус (>= 1.5 mm)" fr="Kystes du plexus choroide (>= 1,5 mm)" en="Choroid plexus cysts (>=1.5 mm)" ru="кисты сосудистых сплетений (>=1.5 mm)" es="Quiste del plexo coroideo (>=1.5 mm)" ja="脈絡膜嚢胞（>=1.5mm）" nl="Plexus choroidus cyste (>= 1,5 mm)" />
</lang>As you might understand, we need to have the fixed text '>' for later processing. (not the greater than symbol '>' but the escaped version of it).
Therefore, I escape the ampersand (encode?) and leave the rest of the text as is. And so my > becomes >
All ok?
Symptom:
in fetching attributes, for example by the getAttribute("en") type call, the wrong attribute values are fetched.
Not only that, if i only read to Document instance, and write back to file, the attributes are shown mixed up.
eg:
dna: 8233, ro=chisturi de plex coroid (>=1.5 mm), en=кисты сосудистых сплетений (>=1, de=Choroidplexus Zyste (>=1,5 mm)Here you can see that 'en' is shown holding what looks like greek, ... (what is ru as a country-code anyway?) where it should have obviously had the english text that originally was associated with the attribute 'en'
This seems very strange and unexpected to me. I would have thought that in escaping (encoding) the ampersand, i have fulfilled all requirements of me, and that should be that.
There is also no error that seems to occur.... we simply get the wrong order when fetching attributes.
Am I doing something wrong? Or is this a bug that should be submitted?
Kind Regards, and thanks to all responders/readers.
Sean
p.s. previously I had not been escaping the ampersand. This meant that I lost my ampersand in fetching attributes, AND the attribute order was ALSO WRONG!
In fact, the wrong order was what led me to read about how to correctly encode ampersand at all. I had been hoping that correctly encoding would fix the order problem, but it didn't.
Edited by: svaens on Mar 31, 2008 6:21 AM

Hi kdgregory ,
Firstly, sorry if there has been a misunderstanding on my part. If i did not reply to the question you raised, I appologise.
In this 'reply' I hope not to risk further misunderstanding, and have simply given the most basic example which will cause the problem I am talking about, as well as short instructions on what XML to remove to make the problem disappear.
Secondly, as this page seems to be displayed in ISO 8859-1, this is the reason the xml I have posted looks garbled. The xml is UTF-8. I have provided a link to the example xml file for the sample below
[example xml file UTF-8|http://sean.freeshell.org/java/less2.xml]
As for your most recent questions:
Is it specified as an entity? To my knowledge (so far as my understanding of what an entity is) , yes, I am including entities in my xml. In my below example, the entities are the code for the greater than symbol. I am under the understanding that this is allowed in XML ??
Is it an actual literal character (0xA0)? No, I am specifying 'greater than' entity (code?) in order to include the actual symbol in the end result. I am encoding it in form 'ampersand', 'g character', 't character', 'colon' in order for it to work, according to information I have read on various web pages. A quick google search will show you where I got such information from, example website: https://studio.tellme.com/general/xmlprimer.html
Here is my sample program. It is longer than the one you kindly provided only because it prints out all attributes of the element it looks for. To use it, only change the name of the file it loads.
I have given the xml code seperately so it can be easily copied and saved to file.
Results you can expect from running this small test example?
1. a mixed up list of attributes where attribute node name no longer matches its assigned attribute values (not for all attributes, but some).
2. removing the attribute bg from the 'text' element will reduce most of these symptoms, but not all. Removing another attribute from the element will most likely make the end result look normal again.
3. No exception is thrown by the presence of non xml characters.
IMPORTANT!!! I have only just (unfortunately) noticed what this page does to my unicode characters... all the the international characters get turned into funny codes when previewed and viewed on this page.
Whereas the only codes I am explicitly including in this XML is the greater than symbol. The rest were international characters.
Perhaps that is the problem?
Perhaps there is an international characters problem?
I am quite sure that these characters are all UTF-8 because when I open up this xml file in firefox, It displays correctly, and in checking the character encoding, firefox reports UTF-8.
In order to provide an un-garbled xml file, I will provide it at this link:
link to xml file: [http://sean.freeshell.org/java/less2.xml]
Again, sorry for any hassle and/or delay with my reply, or poor reply. I did not mean to waste anyones time.
It will be appreciated however if an answer can be found for this problem. Chiefly,
1. Is this a bug?
2. Is the XML correct? (if not, then all those websites i've been reading are giving false information? )
Kindest Regards,
Sean
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
public class Example
 public static void main(String[] argv)
 try
 FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("/home/sean/Desktop/chris/less2.xml");
 Document doc = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance()
 .newDocumentBuilder()
 .parse(new InputSource(fis));
 Element root = doc.getDocumentElement();
 NodeList textnodes = root.getElementsByTagName("text");
 int len = textnodes.getLength();
 int index = 0;
 int attindex = 0;
 int attrlen = 0;
 NamedNodeMap attrs = null;
 while (index<len)
 Element te = (Element)textnodes.item(index);
 attrs = te.getAttributes();
 attrlen = attrs.getLength();
 attindex = 0;
 Node node = null;
 while (attindex<attrlen)
 node = attrs.item(attindex);
 System.out.println("attr: "+node.getNodeName()+ " is shown holding value: " + node.getNodeValue());
 attindex++;
 index++;
 System.out.println("-------------");
 fis.close();
 catch(Exception e)
 System.out.println("we've had an exception, type "+ e);
} [example xml file|http://sean.freeshell.org/java/less2.xml]
FOR THE XML, Please see link above, as it is UTF-8, and this page is not. Edited by: svaens on Apr 7, 2008 7:03 AM
Edited by: svaens on Apr 7, 2008 7:23 AM
Edited by: svaens on Apr 7, 2008 7:37 AM
Edited by: svaens on Apr 7, 2008 7:41 AM

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