HOWTO: use table column value as tag name in XMLElement (9iR2)

Question

Hi,
maybe what I'm trying to do simply does not work, but here is my sample:
select XMLElement(DUMMY, DUMMY).getClobVal( ) as SAMPLE
from DUAL;
returns the following XML
<DUMMY>X</DUMMY>
But what I want to get is
<X>X</X>
because "X" is the value of column "DUMMY" for table DUAL
Is there a way to do this in PL/SQL XML-DB in Oracle 9i-R2?
TIA,
Stefan

Answer 1

Do you mean something like this?
  1* select xmlelement(EVALNAME last_name, last_name) from employees
SQL> /
XMLELEMENT(EVALNAMELAST_NAME,LAST_NAME)
<Abel>Abel</Abel>
<Ande>Ande</Ande>
<Atkinson>Atkinson</Atkinson>
<Austin>Austin</Austin>
<Baer>Baer</Baer>
<Baida>Baida</Baida>
<Banda>Banda</Banda>
<Bates>Bates</Bates>
<Bell>Bell</Bell>
<Bernstein>Bernstein</Bernstein>
<Bissot>Bissot</Bissot>
<Bloom>Bloom</Bloom>
<Bull>Bull</Bull>
<Cabrio>Cabrio</Cabrio>
<Cambrault>Cambrault</Cambrault>
<Cambrault>Cambrault</Cambrault>
<Chen>Chen</Chen>
<Chung>Chung</Chung>
<Colmenares>Colmenares</Colmenares>
<Davies>Davies</Davies>
.If you do then you're gonna have to upgrade to 10.2.0.2.
In 10.2.0.1 you'll get...
SQL> select xmlelement(EVALNAME last_name, last_name) from employees
  2  /
ERROR:
ORA-19039: Keyword EVALNAME reserved for future use
no rows selected
SQL>And earlier versions.... well, you probably won't even get that.