Insert a XSL document into XMLType

Question

Hi dear reader
I want to insert a XSL document into XMLType field , but the length of the XSL is 5900 character and I have problem with loading and executing the INSERT statement in database.
for solving the load problem , I use binding variable and try to execute it with EXECUTE IMMEDIATE str.
and get the following error :
ORA-01704: string literal too long
please advice;
thanks

Answer 1

create directory object DIR_TEMP on the database pointing to the physical path where your xml files are available.
Note the path should be on the database server and not on the client and also your files should be present on the database server and not client for this to work.
create table xml_table (id number, xml_data xmltype)
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION getClobDocument
( filename  in varchar2,
  charset   in varchar2 default NULL,
  dir       IN VARCHAR2 default 'DIR_TEMP',
) RETURN CLOB deterministic is
  file          bfile := bfilename(dir,filename);
  charContent   CLOB := ' ';
  targetFile    bfile;
  lang_ctx      number := DBMS_LOB.default_lang_ctx;
  charset_id    number := 0;
  src_offset    number := 1 ;
  dst_offset    number := 1 ;
  warning       number;
BEGIN
  IF charset is not null then
      charset_id := NLS_CHARSET_ID(charset);
  end if;
  targetFile := file;
  DBMS_LOB.fileopen(targetFile, DBMS_LOB.file_readonly);
  DBMS_LOB.LOADCLOBFROMFILE(charContent, targetFile,
  DBMS_LOB.getLength(targetFile), src_offset, dst_offset,
  charset_id, lang_ctx,warning);
  DBMS_LOB.fileclose(targetFile);
  return charContent;
end;
insert into xml_table values(1, XMLTYPE(GetClobDocument('purchaseorder.xml')))
/The function GetClobDocument returns the content of the xml file in CLOB format.
Before insert this is converted into XMLTYPE.