Question with variable syntax

Question

Ok
I run this;
select name
from shuttle_demo_category where id = 30;
It returns this:
name
ITEM 10
I am making this stored procedure:
create or replace
PROCEDURE loadname AS
BEGIN
declare
f utl_file.file_type;
V_dir varchar2(10);
cursor c_item is
select name
from shuttle_demo_category where id = 30;
r_item c_item%ROWTYPE;
begin
----grant execute on utl_file to public; This must be done first
---USER_DIR is the oracle dir
--- in this case USER_DIR is really c:\temp
V_dir := 'USER_DIR';
f := utl_file.fopen(V_dir, 'thing2.xml', 'w');
utl_file.put_line(f, '<?xml version="1.0" ' ||r_item.name || 'encoding="utf-8"?>');
utl_file.put_line(f, '<outline xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/oxp/book/">');
utl_file.put_line(f, '<!--');
utl_file.put_line(f, 'The title-page element should point to a PDF title page inserted');
utl_file.put_line(f, 'at the beginning of the book. (OPTIONAL)');
utl_file.put_line(f, '<!-- So here is the title page reference, in this case it is going to use an RTF template -->');
utl_file.put_line(f, '<title-page type="rtf">c:/temp/Tableofcontents.rtf</title-page>');
utl_file.put_line(f, ' <!-- next follow all documents we want to combine -->');
utl_file.put_line(f, '<item>');
utl_file.put_line(f, ' <content-container>');
utl_file.put_line(f, ' <content>c:\temp\mypage1.pdf</content>');
utl_file.put_line(f, ' </content-container>');
utl_file.put_line(f, ' </item>');
utl_file.put_line(f, '<item>');
utl_file.put_line(f, ' <content-container>');
utl_file.put_line(f, ' <content>c:\temp\mypage2.pdf</content>');
utl_file.put_line(f, ' </content-container>');
utl_file.put_line(f, ' </item>');
utl_file.put_line(f, '<item>');
utl_file.put_line(f, ' <content-container>');
utl_file.put_line(f, ' <content>c:\temp\mypage3.pdf</content>');
utl_file.put_line(f, ' </content-container>');
utl_file.put_line(f, '</item>');
utl_file.put_line(f, '</outline>');
utl_file.fclose(f);
end;
END loadname;
It returns this in the file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<outline xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/oxp/book/">
<!--
The title-page element should point to a PDF title page inserted
at the beginning of the book. (OPTIONAL)
<!-- So here is the title page reference, in this case it is going to use an RTF template -->
<title-page type="rtf">c:/temp/Tableofcontents.rtf</title-page>
<!-- next follow all documents we want to combine -->
<item>
<content-container>
<content>c:\temp\mypage1.pdf</content>
</content-container>
</item>
<item>
<content-container>
<content>c:\temp\mypage2.pdf</content>
</content-container>
</item>
<item>
<content-container>
<content>c:\temp\mypage3.pdf</content>
</content-container>
</item>
</outline>
It did not insert the variable.... why???
Thanks for your help,
Doug

Answer 1

I tryed this:
create or replace
PROCEDURE loadname AS
BEGIN
declare
f utl_file.file_type;
V_dir varchar2(10);
cursor c_item is
select name
from shuttle_demo_category where id = 30;
r_item c_item%ROWTYPE;
begin
----grant execute on utl_file to public; This must be done first
---USER_DIR is the oracle dir
--- in this case USER_DIR is really c:\temp
fetch c_item into r_item;
V_dir := 'USER_DIR';
f := utl_file.fopen(V_dir, 'thing2.xml', 'w');
utl_file.put_line(f, '<?xml version="1.0" ' ||r_item.name || 'encoding="utf-8"?>');
utl_file.put_line(f, '<outline xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/oxp/book/">');
utl_file.put_line(f, '<!--');
utl_file.put_line(f, 'The title-page element should point to a PDF title page inserted');
utl_file.put_line(f, 'at the beginning of the book. (OPTIONAL)');
utl_file.put_line(f, '<!-- So here is the title page reference, in this case it is going to use an RTF template -->');
utl_file.put_line(f, '<title-page type="rtf">c:/temp/Tableofcontents.rtf</title-page>');
utl_file.put_line(f, ' <!-- next follow all documents we want to combine -->');
utl_file.put_line(f, '<item>');
utl_file.put_line(f, ' <content-container>');
utl_file.put_line(f, ' <content>c:\temp\mypage1.pdf</content>');
utl_file.put_line(f, ' </content-container>');
utl_file.put_line(f, ' </item>');
utl_file.put_line(f, '<item>');
utl_file.put_line(f, ' <content-container>');
utl_file.put_line(f, ' <content>c:\temp\mypage2.pdf</content>');
utl_file.put_line(f, ' </content-container>');
utl_file.put_line(f, ' </item>');
utl_file.put_line(f, '<item>');
utl_file.put_line(f, ' <content-container>');
utl_file.put_line(f, ' <content>c:\temp\mypage3.pdf</content>');
utl_file.put_line(f, ' </content-container>');
utl_file.put_line(f, '</item>');
utl_file.put_line(f, '</outline>');
utl_file.fclose(f);
close r_item;
end;
END loadname;
but got:
Connecting to the database caprs.
ORA-01001: invalid cursor
ORA-06512: at "CAPRS.LOADNAME", line 18
ORA-06512: at line 2
Process exited.
Disconnecting from the database caprs.