Issues passing XML to SQL*Plus in UNIX

Question

Oracle 10.2.0.3.0
For some reason I can't seem to figure this out.
This is my PL/SQL script (load_table.sql):
SET SERVEROUTPUT ON
SET VERIFY OFF
DECLARE
  v_clob CLOB;
BEGIN
  v_clob := '&1';
  INSERT INTO rh_page (pageid, pagecontent)
  VALUES ('&2', XMLTYPE(v_clob));
  COMMIT;
END;
EXIT;
It is executed by this shell script (load_table.sh):
#!/usr/bin/ksh
. $HOME/envfile
USERID=myUserID/myPassword
XMLDATA=`cat test_file.xml`
FILENAME="TestFile"
LOG_FILE=load_table.log
sqlplus $USERID << EOF > ${LOG_FILE}
@ load_table.sql ${XMLDATA} ${FILENAME}
exit 0
Here is a sample of the XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Page>
        <PageName></PageName>
        <Title></Title>
        <Roles>-1</Roles>
        <Controls>
                <PageTool>
                        <visible>false</visible>
                </PageTool>
                <divTopLeft>
                        <visible>true</visible>
</Page>
After I execute load_table.sh, I see that load_table.log contains the following error:
SQL> SQL> DECLARE
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-31011: XML parsing failed
ORA-19202: Error occurred in XML processing
LPX-00007: unexpected end-of-file encountered
ORA-06512: at "SYS.XMLTYPE", line 254
ORA-06512: at line 1
ORA-06512: at line 9Any ideas on what is causing this error or how to resolve?

Answer 1

I understand this is probably not the best approach; however, I was in the process of automating the process of reading multiple XML files and loading their content to a table. Since I don't have DB privelges to set up External Tables or utilize UTL_FILE, I was trying this approach to simply direct the contents of an XML file into a UNIX shell script variable, and then pass it on as a SQL*Plus substitution variable.
I originally did this manually, by opening each of the 40+ files and copying/pasting their content to set a CLOB variable in a PL/SQL block...now I'm just trying to figure a way to automate the same manual steps.