ORA-31001: Invalid resource handle or path name

Question

I am using Oracle Database 11g Express Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 - Production.
I need to read xml contents from a file at D:\ on my windows system.
File name is test.xml.
I am using the system account as its a personal server.
I tried as follows:
SQL> CREATE DIRECTORY myxml AS 'D:';
SQL> declare
2 parser xmlparser.Parser;
3 begin
4 xmlparser.parse(parser,'myxml\test.xml');
5 end;
6 /
declare
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-31001: Invalid resource handle or path name "myxml\test.xml"
ORA-06512: at "SYS.XDBURITYPE", line 11
ORA-06512: at "XDB.DBMS_XSLPROCESSOR", line 142
ORA-29280: invalid directory path
ORA-29280: invalid directory path
ORA-29280: invalid directory path
ORA-06512: at "XDB.DBMS_XMLPARSER", line 120
ORA-06512: at line 4
D: is a FAT32 partition so Windows 7 offers no acl/permission restrictions. I have also tried from other different locations and the error is the same.
Please help me.

Answer 1

907985 wrote:
SQL> CREATE DIRECTORY myxml AS 'D:';
ORA-29280: invalid directory path
ORA-06512: at "XDB.DBMS_XMLPARSER", line 120I haven't tried it, but perhaps it's as simple as error message implies. Try with at least one directory e.g. D:\ or D:\somefoldername in the directory object's path name.