Formatting XML Output

How can I format the XML output I get from extract()?
- get rid of new lines
- get rid of indents
- get rid of namespaces
Thanks.

You write some PL/SQL or Java code yourself to do so. We'll provide the capability to turn off the indent & newline stuff in a future release. I'm at a loss to understand why you would want to turn off namespace declarations though--they change the semantics of the data.

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