Oracle tag in HTML Portlet

Question

I am trying to create a dynamic List of Values (using a Cursor) that is used in a HTML portlet. It does not seem to work. Is this possible within the ORACLE tags?
<select name="student" style="width:137px" onChange="SubmitChildList()">
<ORACLE>
declare
CURSOR get_students IS
select A.first_name || ' ' || A.middle_name || ' ' || A.last_name stu_name, A.student_id id
from sbase
order by 1;
begin
FOR stu_loop in get_students LOOP
htp.p('<OPTION>' || stu_loop.id);
END LOOP;
end;
</ORACLE>
                              </select>
                              </td>

Answer 1

I had the form tag already (didn't include in the questions). It doesn't seem to execute the cursor and populate the emps in the list box.
Here is the complete HTML portlet.
          <table width="145" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4">
          <tr><td><b><FONT class="PortletText1"> View Child Information:</font></b>
          <table width="135" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1">
          <form method="post" action="../utilities/switchschools.asp?ci=yy" name="childInfo">
                         <tr>
                              <td align="left" valign="bottom"><!-- Width set for sake of nav bar. -->
                                   <select name="student" style="width:137px" onChange="SubmitChildList()">
<ORACLE>
declare
CURSOR get_emp IS
select A.ename empname, A.empno id
from emp
order by 1;
begin
FOR emp_loop in get_emp LOOP
htp.p('<option value= ' || emp_loop.id || '>';
htp.p(emp_loop.empname || '</option>';
END LOOP;
end;
</ORACLE>
                              </select>
                              </td>
                              <td align="right" valign="bottom">
                                   <input type="image" title="Go" name="go" id="go" src="/images/go.gif" width="22" height="16" border="0" alt="Go" onclick="return childCheck();">
                              </td>
                         </tr>
                         </form>
          </table>
               </td></tr>
          </table>