Jdapi and InitializeValue

Hi,
I use jdapi to migrate some Forms (10g). But when the datatype of item is different of char, alpha or long, the xml file not contains InitializeValue information. It's strange. Have you some explication ?
Tanks

Hello Francois
Jdapi can be use to create xml file with main() method of oracle.forms.util.xmltools.Forms2XML.

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