Problems in generating excel output

Hi all,
I'm facing a problem submitting a report with XML output (XML Publisher 5.0.1). I created a RTF template in order to generate an excel output but when I launch the concurrent, its status after few minutes becomes "Warning" logging java.lang.OutOfMemoryError. The strangest thing is that the PDF output generates normally without errors or warnings.
I've found on metalink a note in which they suggest to create a configuration file (xdo.cfg) where i've declared a temporary folder in order to split the XML in two parts to allow the XDO to create correctly my excel output....but it didnt work! :(
After that I added to my concurrent execution options the string "-Xmx512m" to increase the memory for that particular task (even if i think that 128 mb for a XML file of 5 MB are more than necessary)... but no results (in this case i've had another error "java.io.FileNotFoundException: /opt/app/oracle//admin/out//o2260792.out (No such file or directory)" ).
Can someone help me??
Is it a normal behaviour?? It seems to be a joke, cause in metalink they suggest everybody to apply patches and patches!!
Thx all

Hi Nisha,
Refer to that link.....May be it will helpful for you....
Are You All Able to get the Output In EXCEL Format
Otherwise you can do one thing......Add one more Viewer option for XML type data... Most probably earlier For viewing the XML data you are using Browser... So by default whenever you are trying to see the output it is opening it in Browser....
Now add one more Viewer option For XML as Microsoft Excel......
So After making two viewer option for XML data whenever you will try to see the output of XML data it will ask you...Viewing option...1.Browser 2. Excel
Choose Excel here it will not give you any error and you will be able to open the output in Excel format.....
Regards
Ravi

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