Migrating downwards

For those old-schoolers of you out there, is it possible to migrate procedures, triggers, Oracle forms and general SQL DDL/DML scripts (not actual DB data) developed on XE 10g to Oracle Standard Edition 9? What about ver. 8?
I am developing a database application on my own machine which, when finished, will have to run on one of the aforementioned Oracle versions. Just checking what lies ahead...

I would say that it should be possible to migrate SQL and PL/SQL code from Oracle 10g to Oracle 9i or Oracle 8i provided that you are not using Oracle 10g/Oracle 9i SQL or PL/SQL new features.
(Oracle 10G new features:
http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14214/toc.htm
Oracle 9i new features:
http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96531/toc.htm)
In some rare cases, you may also encouter code working in 10g but not working in 9i or 8i because of bug fixing in 10g or 9i.
As far as I know, there is not an easy way to check that your SQL / PL/SQL code is Oracle9i Oracle 8i compatible.

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