Need help with ora-01036 illegal variable name/number

Question

Can you help me fix the following problem.
I'm getting an oracle exceptioin while running the following.
OracleParameter[] myParameters = new OracleParameter[] { new OracleParameter("SELECTEDREGIONS", OracleDbType.RefCursor, ParameterDirection.Output) };
XmlReader xRdr = oraclehelper.ExecuteXmlReader(myConnection,CommandType.StoredProcedure,"TEST_TESTPACKAGE.TEST_GETREGIONS_SP",myParameters);
the oracle helper function is
public XmlReader ExecuteXmlReader(OracleConnection inConnection,
CommandType inCommandType,
string inCommandText,
params OracleParameter[] inCommandParameters)
//create a command and prepare it for execution
OracleCommand cmd = new OracleCommand(inCommandText,inConnection);
cmd.CommandType = inCommandType;
if (inCommandParameters != null)
foreach (OracleParameter op in inCommandParameters)
cmd.Parameters.Add(op);
cmd.BindByName = true;
cmd.XmlCommandType = OracleXmlCommandType.Query;
cmd.XmlQueryProperties.RootTag = "Result";
cmd.XmlQueryProperties.RowTag = "Row";
if (cmd.Connection.State != ConnectionState.Open) cmd.Connection.Open();
XmlReader retval = null;
//create the DataAdapter & DataSet
retval = cmd.ExecuteXmlReader();
// detach the OracleParameters from the command object, so they can be used again.
cmd.Parameters.Clear();
return retval;
The stored proc is:
CREATE OR REPLACE package GJUTRAS.test_TestPackage AS
type sregions is REF CURSOR;
procedure test_GetRegions_sp
selectedregions out sregions
procedure test_GetRegByDescrip_sp
descript in varchar2,
selectedregions out sregions
end test_TestPackage;
CREATE OR REPLACE package body GJUTRAS.test_TestPackage AS
procedure test_GetRegions_sp
selectedregions out sregions
is
begin
open selectedregions for
select * from ods.region;
end test_GetRegions_sp;
procedure test_GetRegByDescrip_sp
descript in varchar2,
selectedregions out sregions
is
begin
open selectedregions for
select * from ods.region where description = descript;
end test_GetRegByDescrip_sp;
end test_TestPackage;
/

Answer 1

The versions of the function that use text "select * from ods.region" work fine. It's using a stored procedure with ExecuteXmlReader that I can't seem to get working. The table is
CREATE TABLE REGION (
ID NUMBER(10) NOT NULL,
CODE VARCHAR2(100 BYTE),
ABBREV VARCHAR2(100 BYTE),
NAME VARCHAR2(500 BYTE),
EXTRA_FIELDS_ID NUMBER(10) NOT NULL,
ACTIVE_FLAG VARCHAR2(1 BYTE) NOT NULL,
DESCRIPTION VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
COMMENTS VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
KEYWORDS VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
CHNG_REASON_TYPE_ID NUMBER(10),
CHNG_REASON_CMNT VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
BEG_DATE DATE NOT NULL,
BEG_USER_ID NUMBER(10) NOT NULL,
CREATOR_ID NUMBER(10) NOT NULL,
CREATION_DATE DATE NOT NULL )