HTML Tags in sql

Question

Hi guys
Im executing the below sql with the html tags, as it gone mess and returning error like invalid table name.
SELECT '<p style="font-family: Script MT Bold;color: #800080;font-size:35px;text-align: center;">' || 'Welcome' || PAPF.FULL_NAME|| '</p>
<p style="font-family: Times New Roman;color: #000000;font-size:15px;text-align: center;"> The Employees Information of</p>
<p style="font-family: Times New Roman;color: #000000;font-size:20px;text-align: center;"> <strong>Central Bank of Kuwait</strong>'
FROM FROM PER_ALL_PEOPLE_f PAPF, FND_USER FU
WHERE PAPF.PERSON_ID = FU.EMPLOYEE_ID AND
TRUNC(SYSDATE) BETWEEN PAPF.EFFECTIVE_START_DATE AND
PAPF.EFFECTIVE_END_DATE
Im not sure whether i missed any || or quotes in html tags while using with the column name in the select statement
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Vel

Answer 1

Don't do this via the SQL selection as hardcoded HTML??
I think the following 2 approaches far superior.
If you need the actual SQL projection to contain HTML, implement user functions for data transformation. E.g.
SQL> create or replace function MakeDiv(
  2          divBody varchar2,
  3          fontColor varchar2 default 'black',
  4          tooltip varchar2 default null )
  5  return varchar2 is
  6          DIV_TEMPLATE constant varchar2(4000) :=
  7          '<div style="color:$COLOR" title="$TOOLTIP"> $BODY </div>';
  8 
  9          htmlDiv varchar2(4000);
10  begin
11          htmlDiv := replace( DIV_TEMPLATE, '$BODY', divBody );
12          htmlDiv := replace( htmlDiv, '$COLOR', fontColor );
13          htmlDiv := replace( htmlDiv, '$TOOLTIP', tooltip );
14          return( htmlDiv );
15  end;
16  /
Function created.
SQL>
SQL> select MakeDiv( ename, 'blue', 'Employee '||empno ) from emp;
MAKEDIV(ENAME,'BLUE','EMPLOYEE'||EMPNO)
<div style="color:blue" title="Employee 7369"> SMITH </div>
<div style="color:blue" title="Employee 7499"> ALLEN </div>
<div style="color:blue" title="Employee 7521"> WARD </div>
<div style="color:blue" title="Employee 7566"> JONES </div>
<div style="color:blue" title="Employee 7654"> MARTIN </div>
<div style="color:blue" title="Employee 7698"> BLAKE </div>
<div style="color:blue" title="Employee 7782"> CLARK </div>
<div style="color:blue" title="Employee 7788"> SCOTT </div>
<div style="color:blue" title="Employee 7839"> KING </div>
<div style="color:blue" title="Employee 7844"> TURNER </div>
<div style="color:blue" title="Employee 7876"> ADAMS </div>
<div style="color:blue" title="Employee 7900"> JAMES </div>
<div style="color:blue" title="Employee 7902"> FORD </div>
<div style="color:blue" title="Employee 7934"> MILLER </div>
14 rows selected.
SQL> An even better approach is not to do this in the SQL projection - but instead have a PL/SQL framework that accepts a SQL, and turns the SQL projection of that SQL into a HTML report. Where this framework can use different templates to generate different types of HTML reports.
This approach is very successfully used by Oracle Apex.