Printing ?xml version="1.0"..? tag in xmltype variable

I created the xmltype "result" by using xmlelement and xmlforest functions in a select query.
Now I need to add the "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>" to the xmltype.
I tried manipulating the clob (result.getclobval()) using dbms_lob.append() ,dbms_lob.write() and dbms_lob.writeappend() functions in various combinations,but nothing seems to work.
Can anyone help me with this?
Thanks,
Aditi

Hi,
I want to strip it off because I am apppending the same in a Java Program.
Please let me know how can it be done.
Appreciate your inputs.
Thanks,
Dibya

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Charles,
I believe that the blank line is caused by the JSP engine when it strips out the '<%@ page import...>' (replace bracket with brace) statement. God (or at least Larry E) forgive me for posting a link at IBM, but this article speaks to your issue:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-dynxml.html?dwzone=ibm
Maybe you need to put the <?xml?> tag in the jsp itself and strip it out of your xmldoc before outputting it.
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Hello friends. I'm wondering if anyone has any insight as to why I cannot create
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If I include the leading tag in my XML mapping for a jws method, I am unable to
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help?
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I suppose you have set 'http-xml=true' for this to work. For http-xml
protocol, there is no way to specify the leading <?xml> tag, and hence
unfortunately the desired functionality cannot be achieved.
In case, this is very important for you, could you please log a support
case, and then we can file a bug and ask the Engineering to look into it.
Thanks,
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"Crackhead Millionaire" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
Hi Anurag -
Thanks for the response. My problem is that I would like to be able tosubmit
straight XML (i.e., not SOAP) to a webservice from an application outsideof Weblogic.
For example, the following code block fails on submission to BEA:
* Example Simple Integration.
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
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* @created 3.12.2003
* @param argv java.lang.String[] Standard user entry input
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>
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ocationid>1118UG0000</locationid><description>Electric
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Service.jws/createLocation");
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500 error code. However, if I strip out the leading <? xml version="1.0"?> tag
and submit to the web service, it works fine. My program set I createdthis example
for uses DOM to create the document, so I'm actually creating thedocument, getting
the String value of it, then parsing out the leading tag beforesubmission. My
problem is that soon I'll be dealing with third parties who may havetrouble generating
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"Anurag Pareek" <[email protected]> wrote:
CM,
A SOAP message generated by a Workshop web service, when it acts as a
client
to another service, always contains the leading <?xml> tag. Here is a
sample
of a SOAP message generated by Workshop:
POST /TestImport/TestAny/TestAny.jws HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MS Web Services Client
Protocol 1.0.3705.0; BEA WLW 7.0)
SOAPAction: "http://www.openuri.org/hello2"
Host: localhost
Accept: text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Length: 398
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<hello2 xmlns="http://www.openuri.org/">
<o></o>
</hello2>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
It seems to me that what you are asking for is already there. Could you
please elaborate your issue further, probably with a sample of a XML
message
which you feel is not accepted by Workshop, but should be.
Thanks,
Anurag
"Crackhead Millionaire" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Hello friends. I'm wondering if anyone has any insight as to why Icannot
create
a fully formed XML document when developing a web service which
includes
the standard
<? xml version="1.0" ?> leading tag.
If I include the leading tag in my XML mapping for a jws method, Iam
unable to
compile the service into an ear, getting the following error: "Anunexpected
exception occurred while attempting to process the classes and
annotations
for
this Web Service." If I do not include the leading tag, I can compileinto an
EAR file and invoke the web service from a HTTP POST, but I cannotinclude
the
leading <?xml...> tag in my request. Considering that I'll be askingother vendors
to submit to my web services and creation of xml documents using DOMor
other
methods automatically generates the <?xml ...>, I'm hoping I'm notgoing
to have
to tell them to parse out this piece of the files they want to sendme.
Can anyone
help?
Thanks so much!
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<description>Paid Checks</description>
<ID>1269994919135</ID>
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<Format>
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<Baseline>CCITT</Baseline>
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<Format>
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<RT>10700543</RT>
<accountNumber>1234567890</accountNumber>
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<serialNumber>200244935</serialNumber>
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<imageIndicator>Actual Item Image Present</imageIndicator>
<imageViewInfo>
<Format>
<Baseline>TIF</Baseline>
</Format>
<Compression>
<Baseline>CCITT</Baseline>
</Compression>
<ViewSide>Front</ViewSide>
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<imageRefKey>201003290000713900851896742901_Front.TIF</imageRefKey>
<imageFileLocator>IFTDISB20100330172157M002.zip</imageFileLocator>
</imageViewLocator>
</imageViewInfo>
<imageViewInfo>
<Format>
<Baseline>TIF</Baseline>
</Format>
<Compression>
<Baseline>CCITT</Baseline>
</Compression>
<ViewSide>Rear</ViewSide>
<imageViewLocator>
<imageRefKey>201003290000713900851896742901_Rear.TIF</imageRefKey>
<imageFileLocator>IFTDISB20100330172157M002.zip</imageFileLocator>
</imageViewLocator>
</imageViewInfo>
</imageView>
</checkItem>
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<totalCollectionAmount>61370501</totalCollectionAmount>
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</collectionSummary>
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++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Any ideas and or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers!
Edited by: user12021655 on Aug 3, 2010 1:25 PM

I really need to update my blog to get the example you are looking for posted. I did a quick search on the forums for XMLTable and found a good example at {message:id=4325701}. You will want to use OBJECT_VALUE in the PASSING clause where you need to reference the column in your table.
Note: See the FAQ in the upper right for how to use the tag to wrap objects to retain formatting. Also your XML is missing closing nodes.

Parse XML file, read a tag with whitespaces value.

Hi all,
I've got a problem with reading a spaced value record from xml file using sys.xmltype.
My xml file contains the following:
<?xml version = '1.0'?>;
<ROWSET>
<ROW num="1">
<FIRSTNAME>Nik</FIRSTNAME>
<LASTNAME> </LASTNAME>
<AGE>30</AGE>
</ROW>
</ROWSET>
As you see last name contains four spaces!
Now when I'm trying to read value from LASTNAME record I'm getting a NULL value, but I want it to return me those 4 spaces as they are.
Here is a short code description of what I'm doing:
declare
     xml sys.xmltype;
str1 varchar2(100);
str2 varchar2(100);
begin
     xml := sys.xmltype.createxml(fileContentClob); -- I copy the file content into the fileContentClob variable.
     If xml.existsnode('//ROW['1']/LASTNAME') > 0 Then -- This condition evaluates as true
str1 := xml.extract('//ROW['1']/LASTNAME/text()'); -- str1 gets NULL value :(, I want spaces as they are in the file.
str2 := xml.extract('//ROW[' || 1 || ']/LASTNAME').getstringval; -- str2 gets <LASTNAME/> null tag :(.
     End If;
end;
Seems like when it createxml from the fileContentClob it ignores the spaces and find LASTNAME as a null field.
Do you have any suggestions on how can I fix that, so I can read whitespaces as they are in the file?
I generate the file also using a xml toolpackage from oracle:
declare
strSqlStmt Varchar2(300);
varCtxHdl dbms_xmlquery.ctxhandle;
varClob Clob;
begin
strSqlStmt := 'SELECT FIRSTNAME,LASTNAME,AGE FROM USERS WHERE ROWNUM =1';
varCtxHdl := dbms_xmlquery.newcontext(strSqlStmt);
varClob := dbms_xmlquery.getxml(varCtxHdl);
dbms_xmlquery.closecontext(varCtxHdl);
End;

Even if the STORE AS CLOB clause is used to store the data and preserve whitespace for the XML, the actual extraction of data seems to be removing whitespace...
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1* create table t (xml xmltype) xmltype xml store as clob
SQL> /
Table created.
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 insert into t (xml)
2 values (q'[<?xml version = '1.0'?>
3 <ROWSET>
4 <ROW num="1">
5 <FIRSTNAME>Nik</FIRSTNAME>
6 <LASTNAME>    </LASTNAME>
7 <AGE>30</AGE>
8 </ROW>
9* </ROWSET>]')
SQL> /
1 row created.
SQL> select * from t;
XML
<?xml version = '1.0'?>
<ROWSET>
<ROW num="1">
<FIRSTNAME>Nik</FIRSTNAME>
<LASTNAME>    </LASTNAME>
<AGE>30</AGE>
</ROW>
</ROWSET>
SQL> set null NULL
SQL> select x.rnum, x.firstname, x.lastname, x.age
2 from t
3      ,xmltable('/ROWSET/ROW'
4                PASSING t.xml
5                COLUMNS rnum      NUMBER       PATH '/ROW/@num'
6                       ,firstname VARCHAR2(10) PATH '/ROW/FIRSTNAME'
7                       ,lastname VARCHAR2(10) PATH '/ROW/LASTNAME'
8                       ,age       NUMBER       PATH '/ROW/AGE'
9               ) x
10 /
      RNUM FIRSTNAME LASTNAME          AGE
         1 Nik        NULL               30
SQL>

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