_hex_ in XMLString

Question

When I execute:
qry = new OracleXMLQuery(conn, sql);
return qry.getXMLString();
I get back correct XML; however, there's
hex values for the space character, etc.
For instance the data, "a b" would return:
<ROW>a_x0020_b</ROW>
Is there a way that I can get it to
return: "<ROW>a b</ROW>" ?
Thanks.
Frank

Answer 1

And what is your query?
It's rather unusual that you got data inside <ROW> tag.
Usually there are colums inside it; something like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<V_SDT_XML_TABLE_NS>
<ROW>
<N>1</N>
<DESCRIPTION>100 Kb</DESCRIPTION>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<N>2</N>
<DESCRIPTION>1 Mb</DESCRIPTION>
</ROW>
</V_SDT_XML_TABLE_NS>
I have once got the similar output when tried to produce the XML description of table with field R$INV$CODE and got <R_x0024_INV_x0024_CODE>...</R_x0024_INV_x0024_CODE>.
AFAIK such replacement occurs when otherwise there will be illegal symbol in element name (not its contents), that is why I asked about query.