Select xmlelement not reurning data

Question

All,
When I run the below query in toad I get 1 record:
select * from fnd_user
WHERE user_name ='MSPNARENB';
But, when I run the below query (trying to generate xml data) in toad I an getting null.
SELECT XMLElement( "user_name"
, user_name
FROM fnd_user
WHERE user_name ='MSPNARENB';
I am not sure what is wrong.
Please help me.

Answer 1

Most likely your Toad version doesn't handle XMLType datatype correctly.
Try serializing the result as CLOB explicitly :
SELECT XMLElement( "user_name"
               , user_name
               ).getClobVal() as result
FROM  fnd_user
WHERE user_name ='MSPNARENB';