How to: SELECT statement returns the result in XML format.

That's it... I want to execute a query that returns all rowset in XML format. How can I do it?
Using Oracle 8.0 and up.
Tnx.

FOR XML is a proprietary Microsoft Hack... It is not supported by Oracle in any release. Oracle 9.2.x includes the SQLXML operators, which are part of the SQL:2003 standard and are the agreed upon (Mircosoft, IBM, Oracle etc) way of generating XML from relational data....
See http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B12037_01/appdev.101/b10790/xdb03usg.htm#sthref251

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DECLARE
v_query      varchar2(30) := 'select * from scott.emp';
v_cur        integer;
v_desc_tab   dbms_sql.desc_tab;
v_col_cnt    number;
v_col_lst    varchar2(4000);
v_xml_query varchar2(32767);
xml_metadata_coll xmlsequencetype := xmlsequencetype();
xml_metadata      xmltype;
res          clob;
BEGIN
v_cur := dbms_sql.open_cursor;
dbms_sql.parse(v_cur, v_query, dbms_sql.native);
dbms_sql.describe_columns(v_cur, v_col_cnt, v_desc_tab);
dbms_sql.close_cursor(v_cur);
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                 else 'UNKNOWN'
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             , v_desc_tab(i).col_precision as "PRECISION"
             , v_desc_tab(i).col_scale as "SCALE"
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into xml_metadata
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      <DATATYPE>NUMBER</DATATYPE>
      <MAX_LENGTH>22</MAX_LENGTH>
      <PRECISION>4</PRECISION>
      <SCALE>0</SCALE>
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      <MAX_LENGTH>10</MAX_LENGTH>
      <PRECISION>0</PRECISION>
      <SCALE>0</SCALE>
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      <MAX_LENGTH>9</MAX_LENGTH>
      <PRECISION>0</PRECISION>
      <SCALE>0</SCALE>
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      <DATATYPE>NUMBER</DATATYPE>
      <MAX_LENGTH>22</MAX_LENGTH>
      <PRECISION>4</PRECISION>
      <SCALE>0</SCALE>
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    <COLUMN name="HIREDATE">
      <DATATYPE>DATE</DATATYPE>
      <MAX_LENGTH>7</MAX_LENGTH>
      <PRECISION>0</PRECISION>
      <SCALE>0</SCALE>
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      <PRECISION>7</PRECISION>
      <SCALE>2</SCALE>
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    <COLUMN name="COMM">
      <DATATYPE>NUMBER</DATATYPE>
      <MAX_LENGTH>22</MAX_LENGTH>
      <PRECISION>7</PRECISION>
      <SCALE>2</SCALE>
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    <COLUMN name="DEPTNO">
      <DATATYPE>NUMBER</DATATYPE>
      <MAX_LENGTH>22</MAX_LENGTH>
      <PRECISION>2</PRECISION>
      <SCALE>0</SCALE>
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      <ENAME>SMITH</ENAME>
      <JOB>CLERK</JOB>
      <MGR>7902</MGR>
      <HIREDATE>1980-12-17</HIREDATE>
      <SAL>800</SAL>
      <DEPTNO>20</DEPTNO>
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      <EMPNO>7499</EMPNO>
      <ENAME>ALLEN</ENAME>
      <JOB>SALESMAN</JOB>
      <MGR>7698</MGR>
      <HIREDATE>1981-02-20</HIREDATE>
      <SAL>1600</SAL>
      <COMM>300</COMM>
      <DEPTNO>30</DEPTNO>
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      <EMPNO>7521</EMPNO>
      <ENAME>WARD</ENAME>
      <JOB>SALESMAN</JOB>
      <MGR>7698</MGR>
      <HIREDATE>1981-02-22</HIREDATE>
      <SAL>1250</SAL>
      <COMM>500</COMM>
      <DEPTNO>30</DEPTNO>
    </ROW>
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      <EMPNO>7566</EMPNO>
      <ENAME>JONES</ENAME>
      <JOB>MANAGER</JOB>
      <MGR>7839</MGR>
      <HIREDATE>1981-04-02</HIREDATE>
      <SAL>2975</SAL>
      <DEPTNO>20</DEPTNO>
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      <JOB>SALESMAN</JOB>
      <MGR>7698</MGR>
      <HIREDATE>1981-09-28</HIREDATE>
      <SAL>1250</SAL>
      <COMM>1400</COMM>
      <DEPTNO>30</DEPTNO>
    </ROW>
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      <EMPNO>7698</EMPNO>
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      <JOB>MANAGER</JOB>
      <MGR>7839</MGR>
      <HIREDATE>1981-05-01</HIREDATE>
      <SAL>2850</SAL>
      <DEPTNO>30</DEPTNO>
    </ROW>
    <ROW>
      <EMPNO>7782</EMPNO>
      <ENAME>CLARK</ENAME>
      <JOB>MANAGER</JOB>
      <MGR>7839</MGR>
      <HIREDATE>1981-06-09</HIREDATE>
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      <DEPTNO>10</DEPTNO>
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      <EMPNO>7839</EMPNO>
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      <MGR>7698</MGR>
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      <SAL>1500</SAL>
      <COMM>0</COMM>
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      <MGR>7698</MGR>
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      <DEPTNO>30</DEPTNO>
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      <JOB>ANALYST</JOB>
      <MGR>7566</MGR>
      <HIREDATE>1981-12-03</HIREDATE>
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      <DEPTNO>20</DEPTNO>
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      <EMPNO>7934</EMPNO>
      <ENAME>MILLER</ENAME>
      <JOB>CLERK</JOB>
      <MGR>7782</MGR>
      <HIREDATE>1982-01-23</HIREDATE>
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</ROOT>A couple of comments :
<li> I handle only four datatypes here (VARCHAR2, NUMBER, DATE, TIMESTAMP). Of course you can add more.
The list of Oracle Type Number is available here : http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e26088/sql_elements001.htm#i54330
Starting with 11g (not sure which release), DBMS_SQL package also declares these numbers through named constants.
<li> I don't use DBMS_XMLGEN in this example. Instead I rebuild the query using SQL/XML functions and the list of columns that's just been described.

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product version SAP ECC 6.0
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