ORA-31167: XML nodes over 64K in size cannot be inserted

Question

Hi there,
we have just recently upgraded our database from 9i r2 to 10g (Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0).
The following code was working fine in 9i but is now failing with the error listed in the subject of this thread. I am not actually inserting data at all but merely parsing it. Is there any way I can avoid this error while still performing the parse in PL/SQL?
begin
select test.b2c(xml) into xml_clob
from sde.gdb_usermetadata, admin.sn_resource_metadata
where id = rm_mdid
and rm_rid = resource_id;
v_parser := xmlparser.newParser;
XMLParser.parseClob(v_parser,xml_clob);
xml_doc := xmlparser.getDocument(v_parser);
xmlparser.freeParser(v_parser);
dbms_lob.freetemporary(xml_clob);
end;
The code actually fails at the line XMLParser.parseClob(v_parser,xml_clob);
Many thanks,
David
Message was edited by:
dverna

Answer 1

Hi A_Non,
many thanks for that. I'd already seen that posting and was just wondering if there was still any way to parse XML within a PL/SQL procedure rather than exporting a CLOB to a client or other server side program.
Currently, the parse is being done to provide information to an ASP web application. Based on Mark's suggestion i'd have to export the clob to the ASP and perform the processing using the MSXML object. Not a huge inconvenience in this case but i'd prefer to have everything contained in the DB.
I have other procedures that parse the same XML documents and load relational tables based on the data contained therein. As these are all scheduled to run overnight in Oracle i'd rather not have to rewrite the code in other languages when Oracle was handling it quite nicely in 9i (it's annoying because there is only 1 node >64k which I don't actually need anyway).
Anyway, thanks for the pointer and if you or anyone else has further ideas they'd be much appreciated. I think an upgrade to 11g may be someway off!
Cheers,
David