Need help in inserting XML Documents as XMLType

Question

I am using an XMLType column in one of my tables to store XML messages that come from a B2B application. My insert takes the form of:
insert into mytable values(
'100',
'unvalidated',
'final',
XMLTYPE(
'The XML Message
This has been working fine for the last several weeks. Over the weekend I was working with a new message type and getting ready to enter some test messages for some new validation functions. When I try to insert the row, I get a
ERROR at line 6:
ORA-01704: string literal too long
error message.
In looking it up, the book says that the string literal is over 4000 characters long, which the message is.
I can't find anything in the docs on how to insert an XML doc with over 4000 characters into an XMLType column. I'm OK on record size which is supposed to be 2 GB - my string is just too long.
Please help - I need to be testing this today.
Rick Price

Answer 1

Hi Rick,
For a very large string , i am using following proc.
See if it can be of any help.
declare
str clob ;
begin
str := '<?xml version="1.0" ?>
BIG LARGE STRING ';
insert into stylesheet values (1, 'style_name' ,XMLTYPE(str)) ;
commit;
Cheers
Pashabhai
end;