Looping through a refcursor to get list of dates as a string

Question

hi,
i have a simple procedure which gives me list of from dates and to dates
i need to get the dates a comma separated dates
i am not sure if this can be done directly by doing a for loop on the refcursor or i have to fetch it into a record/array and then concatenate with comma or is there anything else that can be done.
i tried out some stuff like below
ps help me out
the procedure that retruns the list of dates is
CREATE OR REPLACE procedure SALUSER.prm_sp_rpt_payslip_lop_dates(p_empid in int,p_tran_year in int,p_tran_month in integer,o_dates out sys_refcursor)
as
begin
open o_dates for select  to_char(PHL_LOP_FROM,'DD-Mon-YYYY'),to_char(PHL_LOP_TO,'DD-Mon-yyyy')
                 from prm_h_lop
                 where phl_emp_id=p_empid
                   and phl_tran_year=p_tran_year
                   and phl_Tran_month=p_tran_month;
end;
/i need my o/p as
dates :<date1>,<date2>...etcregards,

Answer 1

Maybe sth. like
SQL>  var cur refcursor
SQL>  declare
cr sys_refcursor;
procedure prm_sp_rpt_payslip_lop_dates (cr in out sys_refcursor)
as
begin
   open cr for select hiredate from emp;
end prm_sp_rpt_payslip_lop_dates;
begin
prm_sp_rpt_payslip_lop_dates(cr);
open :cur for select 'Dates: ' || column_value dates from xmltable('string-join(//text(), ", ")' passing xmltype(cr));
end;
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL>  print cur
DATES                                                                          
Dates: 17-Dec-1980, 20-Feb-1981, 22-Feb-1981, 02-Apr-1981, 28-Sep-1981, 01-May-1
981, 09-Jun-1981, 19-Apr-1987, 17-Nov-1981, 08-Sep-1981, 23-May-1987, 03-Dec-198
1, 03-Dec-1981, 23-Jan-1982                                                    
1 row selected.