Suppress default namespace when extracting XML

How can I avoid that Oracle includes the target namespace of my schema as the default namespace when using the EXTRACT function?
E.g., select xmlelement("XmlData",
xmlagg(extract(tx.transmission, '/Transmission/Item')))
from transmissions tx
returns something like
<XmlData>
<Item xmlns="http://myschematargetnamespace" N="1">abcdef</Item>
<Item xmlns="http://myschematargetnamespace" N="2">abcdef</Item>
</XmlData>
Any ideas will be appreciated very much!
P.S. Can anybody tell me how I configure sqlplus to display the complete XML instead of only two lines?

Well not sure about your XML issue yet but as for SQLplus, you need to set certain session parameters.
type
SQL> show all
for a list of possible options but for your case I think something like
SQL> set long 10000
will help (this means limit to 10000 chars).
'set linesize' and 'set pagesize' could help too, eg:
SQL> set linesize 500 (if your terminal will accept 500 cols)
SQL> set pagesize 90
etc...
Voila.
Sam.

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Suppress default namespace in extract() function

How can I avoid that Oracle includes the target namespace of my schema as the default namespace when using the EXTRACT function?
E.g., select xmlelement("XmlData",
xmlagg(extract(tx.transmission, '/Transmission/Item')))
from transmissions tx
returns something like
<XmlData>
<Item xmlns="http://myschematargetnamespace" N="1">abcdef</Item>
<Item xmlns="http://myschematargetnamespace" N="2">abcdef</Item>
</XmlData>
Any ideas will be appreciated very much!
P.S. Can anybody tell me how I configure sqlplus to display the complete XML instead of only two lines?

Jash
I'm not aware of the answer, not would it make sense to do. element x in the noNamespaceNamespace is not the same object as element x in a specified namespace. Techinically there is no correct way to move the element from some specific namespace to the noNamespaceNamespace. You would have to construct a new element in the noNamespaceNamespace from scratch.

Default namespace problem loading XML

I am loading multiple rss/xml file. For some of them I have to use namespace (atom feeds)
so I write this lines
var atom:Namespace = new Namespace("http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom");
var rssXML:XML = new XML();
default xml namespace = atom;
I test this in a outside my program but when I integrate this into my main program, it seem like it 's in conflict with all other xml
the problematic line is : default xml namespace = atom
How do I set a namespace only for one xml object ?????
I try diferent way, but didn't get nowhere
thanks

You can declare namespace per XML (but do so before you create XML object):
var namespace1:Namespace = new Namespace("http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom");
default xml namespace = namespace1;
var xml1:XML = <xml1 /> ;
trace(xml1.namespace());
var namespace2:Namespace = new Namespace();
default xml namespace = namespace2;
var xml2:XML = <xml2 /> ;
trace(xml2.namespace());
var namespace3:Namespace = new Namespace("http://www.example.com/schema");
default xml namespace = namespace3;
var xml3:XML = <xml3 /> ;
trace(xml3.namespace());
Trace
http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom
http://www.example.com/schema
Kenneth Kawamoto
http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/

Namespaces when Composing XML from Reational Tables

Hi,
I am trying to create XML documents from Oracle tables that look like this (this is a very abbreviated version):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<Document xmlns="urn:iso:std:etc:etc" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:iso:std:etc:etc.03 ZZZZZ6A.xsd">
<Cstmr>
<GrpHdr>
<MsgId>1006</MsgId>
<CreDtTm>2011-07-12T11:49:07.0Z</CreDtTm>
<NbOfTxs>4624</NbOfTxs>
<CtrlSum>1133772055</CtrlSum>
</GrpHdr>
</Cstmr>
</Document>
I have a SELECT statement that works successfully as follows:
SELECT XMLElement(NOENTITYESCAPING "Document"
,XMLAttributes('urn:iso:std:iso:etc:etc' AS "xmlns"
,'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' AS "xmlns:xsi"
,'urn:iso:std:iso:etc:etc.03 ZZZZZ6A.xsd' AS "xsi:schemaLocation"
,XMLElement(NOENTITYESCAPING "Cstmr"
,XMLElement(NOENTITYESCAPING "GrpHdr"
,XMLForest(spi1.msg_id AS "MsgId"
,TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'YYYY-MM-DD') || 'T' || TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'HH24:MI:SS') || '.0Z'
AS "CreDtTm"
,COUNT(*) AS "NbOfTxs"
,SUM(spi1.payment_pence_amt) / 100
AS "CtrlSum"
) AS xml_doc
FROM t_std18_payment_item_test spi1
GROUP BY spi1.msg_id;
This succesffully produces the desired output:
XML_DOC
<Document xmlns="urn:iso:std:iso:etc:etc" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:
schemaLocation="urn:iso:std:iso:etc:etc.03 ZZZZZ6A.xsd"><Cstmr><GrpHdr><MsgId>1006</MsgId><CreDtTm>2
011-07-12T13:20:19.0Z</CreDtTm><NbOfTxs>4624</NbOfTxs><CtrlSum>1133772055</CtrlSum></GrpHdr></Cstmr>
</Document>
I can then successfully create a VIEW for this:
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW payment_xml of XMLType
WITH OBJECT ID (XMLCast(XMLQuery('/Document/CstmrCdtTrfInitn' Passing OBJECT_VALUE RETURNING CONTENT) AS BINARY_DOUBLE))
AS
SELECT XMLElement(NOENTITYESCAPING "Document"
,XMLAttributes('urn:iso:std:iso:etc:etc' AS "xmlns"
,'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' AS "xmlns:xsi"
,'urn:iso:std:iso:etc:etc.03 ZZZZZ6A.xsd' AS "xsi:schemaLocation"
,XMLElement(NOENTITYESCAPING "Cstmr"
,XMLElement(NOENTITYESCAPING "GrpHdr"
,XMLForest(spi1.msg_id AS "MsgId"
,TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'YYYY-MM-DD') || 'T' || TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'HH24:MI:SS') || '.0Z'
AS "CreDtTm"
,COUNT(*) AS "NbOfTxs"
,SUM(spi1.payment_pence_amt) / 100
AS "CtrlSum"
FROM t_std18_payment_item_test spi1
GROUP BY spi1.msg_id;
But when I select from it using:
SELECT XMLSerialize(Content OBJECT_VALUE AS CLOB indent) AS "Payments"
FROM payment_xml;
I get this:
FROM payment_xml
ERROR at line 2:
ORA-19276: XPST0005 - XPath step specifies an invalid element/attribute name: (Document)
I guess this is to do with my namespace declarations as I can successfully select from the view without the <Document> tag. However, I cannot fathom out quite what I have done wrong or how to fix it.
Any help gratefully received.
Thanks you,
Graham

That said, have you already looked into the FAQ on this forum. You could have found stuff like
SQL> begin
2    dbms_xmlschema.registerSchema
3    (
4      :schemaURL,
5      xdbURIType(:schemaPath).getClob(),
6      TRUE,TRUE,FALSE,FALSE
7    );
8 end;
9 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> create or replace view PURCHASEORDER_XML
2 of xmltype
3 xmlSCHEMA "http://xfiles:8080/home/SCOTT/poSource/xsd/purchaseOrder.xsd" Element "PurchaseOrder"
4 with object id
5 (
6    substr(extractValue(object_value,'/PurchaseOrder/Reference'),1,32)
7 )
8 as
9    select xmlElement
10           (
11             "PurchaseOrder",
12             xmlAttributes
13             (
14               'http://xfiles:8080/home/SCOTT/poSource/xsd/purchaseOrder.xsd' as "xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation",
15               'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' as "xmlns:xsi"
16             ),
17             xmlElement("Reference",p.REFERENCE),
18             xmlElement
19             (
20               "Actions",
21               ( select xmlAgg
22                        (
23                          xmlElement
24                          (
25                            "Action",
26                            xmlElement("User",ACTIONEDBY),
27                            case
28                              when DATEACTIONED is not null
29                              then xmlElement("Date",DATEACTIONED)
30                            end
31                          )
32                        )
33                   from PURCHASEORDER_ACTION a
34                  where a.REFERENCE = p.REFERENCE
35               )
36             ),
37             xmlElement
38             (
39               "Reject",
40                  xmlForest
41                  (
42                    REJECTEDBY as "User",
43                 DATEREJECTED as "Date",
44                    COMMENTS as "Comments"
45                  )
46             ),
47             xmlElement("Requestor",REQUESTER),
48             xmlElement("User",USERID),
49             xmlElement("CostCenter",COSTCENTER),
50             xmlElement
51             (
52               "ShippingInstructions",
53               xmlElement("name",SHIPTONAME),
54               xmlElement("address",ADDRESS),
55               xmlElement("telephone",PHONE)
56             ),
57             xmlElement("SpecialInstructions",SPECIALINSTRUCTIONS),
58             xmlElement
59             (
60               "LineItems",
61               ( select xmlAgg
62                        (
63                          xmlElement
64                          (
65                            "LineItem",
66                            xmlAttributes(LINENO as "ItemNumber"),
67                            xmlElement("Description",DESCRIPTION),
68                            xmlElement
69                            (
70                              "Part",
71                              xmlAttributes
72                              (
73                                UPC       as "Id",
74                                QUANTITY as "Quantity",
75                                UNITPRICE as "UnitPrice"
76                              )
77                            )
78                          )
79                        )
80                    from PURCHASEORDER_LINEITEM l
81                   where l.REFERENCE = p.REFERENCE
82               )
83             )
84           )
85      from PURCHASEORDER_TABLE p, PURCHASEORDER_REJECTION r, PURCHASEORDER_SHIPPING s
86     where r.REFERENCE = p.REFERENCE
87       and s.REFERENCE = p.REFERENCE
88 /
View created.
and how to do this based on relational content...

Document contains too many nodes error when extracting xml tag name

I Have a large xml file in which the tag contains ~: as the value.
Now I am trying to extract all the tags which have ~: as the value and store that column using the following query and insert into a table.
insert into space_md select distinct xmltype(extract(value(x), '/').getstringval()).getrootelement() COLUMN_NAME
from gt_xmltype_tab gt, TABLE(XMLSequence(extract(gt.xmlfile1, '/ROWSET/ROW/*'))) x
where instr(extract(value(x),'/').getstringval(),'~:') > 1;
The xml file was generated using dbms_xmlgen.getxml. Table has 48 columns and around 4000 rows.
My above insert query gave me an error of 31186 too many nodes error.
I am using oracle version 10.2.0.3.
Following are the set of commands I ran....
SQL> insert into gt_xmltype_tab(xmlfile1)
values(XMLType(bfilename('BKUP_RES','QC.xml'),nls_charset_id('AL32UTF8'))); 2
1 row created.
SQL> SQL>
SQL> insert into restore_space_metadata select distinct 'QC', xmltype(extract(value(x), '/').getstringval()).getrootelement() COLUMN_NAME
2 from gt_xmltype_tab gt, TABLE(XMLSequence(extract(gt.xmlfile1, '/ROWSET/ROW/*'))) x
3 where instr(extract(value(x),'/').getstringval(),'~:') > 1;
insert into restore_space_metadata select distinct 'QC', xmltype(extract(value(x), '/').getstringval()).getrootelement() COLUMN_NAME
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-31186: Document contains too many nodes
Is there a better way of extracting the xml tag element name based on the xmltag content?
There is one other table which has 172 columns but only 100 rows so it doesnt create any problem on that table.
But this QC table has less columns but many many rows...
Any suggestions

There is a requiremnent of taking centain type of data backup and restore it.
It was implemented on flat file approach which was giving errors.
So it was implemented using XML approach.
Read data, store in xml file and read from xml file and load it into table.
Further, found that dbms_xmlstore is not able to handle tag only with whitespace
and tried to use the loading xml file into xmltype table column and extract data.
XMLTYPE column also has same problem of ignoring whitespace when used with extractvalue functions.
So for the workaround I update xmlfile having only one more more whitespace in the tag to have ~: character once.
After restoring data from xml to table I would run update qeury to update ~: to " ".
Now instead of running blind update for all the tables and all the columns from ~: to " " I thouhgt whyy not create a xml file of tag having ~:
along with its tablename.
and thats where I found the problem of too many nodes...
THe insert query you saw is populating table for table_name and column_name with tag having only ~: in it.
I hope this gives you the fair idea of stuff I am doing.

PL/SQL: numeric or value error when extracting xml file from tables.

create or replace FUNCTION proc_generate_xml_from_tables(p_directory in varchar2,
p_areaname in varchar2)
return integer
AS
qryCtx DBMS_XMLGEN.ctxHandle;
result CLOB;
clob_len number := 0;
file_ptr utl_file.file_type;
oTableName restore_metadata.table_name%type;
o_filename restore_metadata.table_name%type;
cursor metadata_restore_list(p_area varchar2) is
select * from restore_metadata
where instr(area_name,upper(p_Area)) > 0
order by degree;
vtabcount number := 0;
sql_stmt varchar2(300);
BEGIN
dbms_lob.createtemporary(result, true,dbms_lob.session);
oTableName := upper('MAINT_ACTVS');
vtabcount := 0;
sql_stmt := 'select count(*) from ' || oTableName;
execute immediate sql_stmt into vtabcount;
o_filename := oTableName || '.xml';
file_ptr := utl_file.fopen(p_directory,o_filename,'W');
dbms_output.put_line(oTableName);
qryCtx := dbms_xmlgen.newcontext('select * from ' || oTableName);
result := dbms_xmlgen.getxml(qryCtx);
--dbms_output.put_line(result);
clob_len := dbms_lob.getlength(result);
dbms_output.put_line('Length of the clob file' || clob_len);
utl_file.put_line(file_ptr,result);
utl_file.fclose(file_ptr);
dbms_xmlgen.closeContext(qryCtx);
dbms_lob.freetemporary(result);
return 0;
EXCEPTION
when others THEN
utl_file.fclose(file_ptr);
dbms_output.put_line('Table Name into Consideration :- ' || oTableName);
dbms_output.put_line('Oracle Error Number:- ' || sqlcode || ' Ora Message :- ' || sqlerrm);
return -1;
END;
I am getting the following errors..
SQL> @temp1.sql
MAINT_ACTVS
Length of the clob file34245
Table Name into Consideration :- MAINT_ACTVS
Oracle Error Number:- -6502 Ora Message :- ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error
What am I doing wrong here?
DB version is Oracle 10g
Edited by: userAtoZ on May 6, 2011 2:55 PM

>
My problem lies that my xml file is having data more than 32 K.
When I write it 32K at a time then it work fine.
>
Then break it down.
l_pos number;
WHILE (l_pos <= clob_len)
LOOP
UTL_FILE.PUT_LINE (file_ptr,DBMS_LOB.SUBSTR ( RESULT , 32767,l_pos));
l_pos := l_pos + 32767;
END LOOP;
utl_file.fclose(file_ptr);

XPATH query behaves differently depending on presence of default namespace

I'm curious to know why an XPATH query seems to behave differently depending on whether the default namespace is present in the query.
My test case is as follows:
I use a table called xml_messages (id number, message xmltype) containing two rows - one where xmlns is specified and the other without.
1. Default namespace is specified:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Bereken xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" Fout="false" Identifier="21-4-2008 12:55:02" xmlns="http://schemas.myco.nl/services/IPP">
<Reglementen>
<Reglement Ind="21000005" dlnsts="6">
<Producten>
<Product Ind="1002" ogr="27098.00" bbr="27098.00" igl="65" elt="130" pgs="63758.00" slt="65" plt="0" reg="0" orf="0" />
<Product Ind="1032" ogr="0" bbr="0" igl="65" elt="130" pgs="63758.00" slt="65" plt="0" reg="0" orf="0" />
<Product Ind="1052" ogr="0" bbr="0" igl="65" elt="130" pgs="63758.00" slt="65" plt="0" reg="0" orf="0" />
<Product Ind="1062" ogr="0" bbr="2389.968" igl="65" elt="130" pgs="63758.00" slt="65" plt="0" reg="0" orf="0" />
<Product Ind="3002" ogr="18968.00" bbr="5690.4" igl="0" elt="130" pgs="63758.00" slt="65" plt="0" reg="0" orf="0" />
<Product Ind="3032" ogr="0" bbr="0" igl="0" elt="130" pgs="63758.00" slt="65" plt="0" reg="0" orf="0" />
<Product Ind="3502" ogr="2845.00" bbr="2845.00" igl="65" elt="130" pgs="63758.00" slt="65" plt="0" reg="0" orf="0" />
<Product Ind="5002" ogr="3794.00" bbr="3794.00" igl="0" elt="18" pgs="63758.00" slt="65" plt="0" reg="0" orf="0" />
<Product Ind="7502" ogr="0" bbr="0" igl="65" elt="130" pgs="63758.00" slt="65" plt="0" reg="0" orf="0" />
<Product Ind="7503" ogr="0" bbr="0" igl="65" elt="130" pgs="63758.00" slt="65" plt="0" reg="0" orf="0" />
<Product Ind="8101" ogr="0" bbr="0" igl="65" elt="65" pgs="63758.00" slt="65" plt="0" reg="0" orf="0" />
<Product Ind="7002" ogr="0" bbr="8724.6" igl="65" elt="130" pgs="0" slt="65" plt="0" reg="0" orf="0" />
<Product Ind="7202" ogr="0" bbr="0" igl="65" elt="130" pgs="0" slt="65" plt="0" reg="0" orf="0" />
<Product Ind="7302" ogr="0" bbr="0" igl="65" elt="130" pgs="0" slt="65" plt="0" reg="0" orf="0" />
</Producten>
</Reglement>
</Reglementen>
<Parameters gbtd="1957-12-18T00:00:00.0000000+01:00" gsl="Vrouw" pdr="2008-03-01T00:00:00.0000000+01:00" hdgs="40000" ptp="100" />
</Bereken>
2. No default namespace specified:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Bereken xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" Fout="false" Identifier="21-4-2008 12:55:02" >
<Reglementen>
<Reglement Ind="21000005" dlnsts="6">
<Producten>
<Product Ind="1002" ogr="27098.00" bbr="27098.00" igl="65" elt="130" pgs="63758.00" slt="65" plt="0" reg="0" orf="0" />
<Product Ind="1032" ogr="0" bbr="0" igl="65" elt="130" pgs="63758.00" slt="65" plt="0" reg="0" orf="0" />
<Product Ind="1052" ogr="0" bbr="0" igl="65" elt="130" pgs="63758.00" slt="65" plt="0" reg="0" orf="0" />
<Product Ind="1062" ogr="0" bbr="2389.968" igl="65" elt="130" pgs="63758.00" slt="65" plt="0" reg="0" orf="0" />
<Product Ind="3002" ogr="18968.00" bbr="5690.4" igl="0" elt="130" pgs="63758.00" slt="65" plt="0" reg="0" orf="0" />
<Product Ind="3032" ogr="0" bbr="0" igl="0" elt="130" pgs="63758.00" slt="65" plt="0" reg="0" orf="0" />
<Product Ind="3502" ogr="2845.00" bbr="2845.00" igl="65" elt="130" pgs="63758.00" slt="65" plt="0" reg="0" orf="0" />
<Product Ind="5002" ogr="3794.00" bbr="3794.00" igl="0" elt="18" pgs="63758.00" slt="65" plt="0" reg="0" orf="0" />
<Product Ind="7502" ogr="0" bbr="0" igl="65" elt="130" pgs="63758.00" slt="65" plt="0" reg="0" orf="0" />
<Product Ind="7503" ogr="0" bbr="0" igl="65" elt="130" pgs="63758.00" slt="65" plt="0" reg="0" orf="0" />
<Product Ind="8101" ogr="0" bbr="0" igl="65" elt="65" pgs="63758.00" slt="65" plt="0" reg="0" orf="0" />
<Product Ind="7002" ogr="0" bbr="8724.6" igl="65" elt="130" pgs="0" slt="65" plt="0" reg="0" orf="0" />
<Product Ind="7202" ogr="0" bbr="0" igl="65" elt="130" pgs="0" slt="65" plt="0" reg="0" orf="0" />
<Product Ind="7302" ogr="0" bbr="0" igl="65" elt="130" pgs="0" slt="65" plt="0" reg="0" orf="0" />
</Producten>
</Reglement>
</Reglementen>
<Parameters gbtd="1957-12-18T00:00:00.0000000+01:00" gsl="Vrouw" pdr="2008-03-01T00:00:00.0000000+01:00" hdgs="40000" ptp="100" />
</Bereken>
Next, I use the following two queries to get attribute values from the xml messages:
First query using xmlns:
select extractvalue(value(v),'/Product/@Ind' ) ind
, extractvalue(value(v),'/*/@Ind' ) ind2
from xml_messages f
, TABLE(XMLSequence( extract(f.message
     ,'/Bereken/Reglementen/Reglement/Producten/Product'
                              ,'xmlns="http://schemas.myco.nl/services/IPP"'
                              ))) v
where f.id = 1; -- Selects from the xmltype message that does have xmlns specified
This returns (as the first row)
IND IND2
____ 1002
^
|------ Nothing is returned by the XPATH /Product/@Ind
Second without using xmlns
select extractvalue(value(v),'/Product/@Ind' ) ind
, extractvalue(value(v),'/*/@Ind' ) ind2
from xml_messages f
, TABLE(XMLSequence( extract(f.message
     ,'/Bereken/Reglementen/Reglement/Producten/Product'
                              ))) v
where f.id = 2; -- Selects from the xmltype message that has no xmlns
This returns (as the first row)
IND IND2
1002 1002
According to XMLSpy, the correct XPATH to get the "Ind" attribute is "/Product/@Ind" so what I dont understand is why query one doesnt return any data when using a default namespace.
The XPATH "/*/@Ind" works in both cases and can be used as a workaround, but it seems less elegant than using the proper XPATH.
I've tried this test case in 9i and 10g, in sqlplus and TOAD, with the same results in all cases.
Can anyone provide some insight as to why this behavior occurs?

Thanks, A_Non,
adding the third parm to the extractvalue part of the query works.
ie:
select extractvalue(value(v),'/Product/@Ind', 'xmlns="http://schemas.myco.nl/services/IPP"' ) ind
, extractvalue(value(v),'/*/@Ind' ) ind2
from xml_messages f
, TABLE(XMLSequence( extract(f.message
     ,'/Bereken/Reglementen/Reglement/Producten/Product'
                              ,'xmlns="http://schemas.myco.nl/services/IPP"'
                              ))) v
where f.id = 1;
I had not expected this because I thought the xml fragment returned by the extract didnt include the default namespace.
However, when looking at the query in more detail, its clear Oracle automatically includes the xmlns part in the returned xml fragment.
One of the rows in the xml fragment:
<Product xmlns="http://schemas.myco.nl/services/IPP" Ind="1002" ogr="27098.00" bbr="27098.00" igl="65" elt="130" pgs="63758.00" slt="65" plt="0" reg="0" orf="0"/>

XmlStreamWriter Default NameSpace

Hi,
I am trying use the xmlStreamWriter to create an xml file. But I am unable to write the default Namespace to the xml, Please can any one help me out?
i want my starting element to be <foo xmlns="http://org.xyz.abc">
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.xml.stream.XMLOutputFactory;
import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException;
import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamWriter;
        public static void main(String[] args) throws XMLStreamException, IOException {
              XMLOutputFactory outputFactory = XMLOutputFactory.newInstance();
              XMLStreamWriter xmlStreamWriter = outputFactory.createXMLStreamWriter(System.out);
              xmlStreamWriter.writeStartDocument();
                 xmlStreamWriter.writeStartElement("foo");
              xmlStreamWriter.writeDefaultNamespace("http://org.xyz.abc");
                    xmlStreamWriter.flush();
                 xmlStreamWriter.close();
           }The above code gives "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: illegal NCName: " Exception
I am using java 1.6 b09.

The code you posted, once wrapped in a class declaration, doesn't throw that or any Exception. It ouputs<?xml version="1.0" ?><foo xmlns="http://org.xyz.abc"Try again.
db

XML DB: using default namespace gives different result

In Oracle9i R2 I created an XMLTYPE table based on a XML schema. The schema uses a namespace. When I insert an instance document that has a namespace prefix for every element querying works fine. When I insert an instance document that has the namespace defined as the default namespace, the query returns an empty row for that document. It seems to me that before storing the document the namespaces must be expanded and hence there should be no difference between the two documents and the query should return a value for both rows. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance! Below is the script and the results of the queries.
==========
THE SCRIPT
==========
DROP TABLE islands_xsd
BEGIN
DBMS_XMLSCHEMA.DELETESCHEMA('http://www.cumquat.nl/xsd/island.xsd', DBMS_XMLSCHEMA.DELETE_CASCADE);
END;
BEGIN
DBMS_XMLSCHEMA.REGISTERSCHEMA('http://www.cumquat.nl/xsd/island.xsd',
'<?xml version="1.0"?>
<schema targetNamespace="http://www.cumquat.nl/xsd/island.xsd"
xmlns:isl="http://www.cumquat.nl/xsd/island.xsd"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<element name="island" type="isl:islandType"/>
<complexType name="islandType">
<sequence>
<element name="name" type="string"/>
<element name="country" type="string"/>
<element name="total_area" type="positiveInteger"/>
<element name="shoreline" type="positiveInteger"/>
<element name="pop_density" type="integer"/>
<element name="dist_continent" type="integer"/>
</sequence>
</complexType>
</schema>');
END;
CREATE TABLE islands_xsd OF XMLTYPE
XMLSCHEMA "http://www.cumquat.nl/xsd/island.xsd"
ELEMENT "island"
INSERT INTO islands_xsd VALUES (XMLTYPE(
'<?xml version="1.0"?>
<isl:island xmlns:isl="http://www.cumquat.nl/xsd/island.xsd"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.cumquat.nl/xsd/island.xsd http://www.cumquat.nl/xsd/island.xsd">
<isl:name>Aldabra</isl:name>
<isl:country>Seychelles</isl:country>
<isl:total_area>13</isl:total_area>
<isl:shoreline>104</isl:shoreline>
<isl:pop_density>0</isl:pop_density>
<isl:dist_continent>6</isl:dist_continent>
</isl:island>'))
INSERT INTO islands_xsd VALUES (XMLTYPE(
'<?xml version="1.0"?>
<island xmlns="http://www.cumquat.nl/xsd/island.xsd"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.cumquat.nl/xsd/island.xsd http://www.cumquat.nl/xsd/island.xsd">
<name>Amsterdam</name>
<country>France</country>
<total_area>9</total_area>
<shoreline>51</shoreline>
<pop_density>0</pop_density>
<dist_continent>30</dist_continent>
</island>'))
SELECT i.EXTRACT('/isl:island/isl:name', 'xmlns:isl="http://www.cumquat.nl/xsd/island.xsd"')
FROM islands_xsd i
SELECT i.EXTRACT('/isl:island/isl:name', 'xmlns:isl="http://www.cumquat.nl/xsd/island.xsd"').GETSTRINGVAL()
FROM islands_xsd i
SELECT i.EXTRACT('/isl:island/isl:name/text()', 'xmlns:isl="http://www.cumquat.nl/xsd/island.xsd"').GETSTRINGVAL()
FROM islands_xsd i
=======================================
THE RESULTS OF RUNNING THE QUERIES
=======================================
SQL> SELECT i.EXTRACT('/isl:island/isl:name', 'xmlns:isl="http://www.cumquat.nl/xsd/island.xsd"')
2 FROM islands_xsd i
3 /
I.EXTRACT('/ISL:ISLAND/ISL:NAME','XMLNS:ISL="HTTP://WWW.CUMQUAT.NL/XSD/ISLAND.XS
XMLTYPE()
2 rows selected.
SQL> SELECT i.EXTRACT('/isl:island/isl:name', 'xmlns:isl="http://www.cumquat.nl/xsd/island.xsd"').GE
TSTRINGVAL()
2 FROM islands_xsd i
3 /
I.EXTRACT('/ISL:ISLAND/ISL:NAME','XMLNS:ISL="HTTP://WWW.CUMQUAT.NL/XSD/ISLAND.XS
<isl:name xmlns:isl="http://www.cumquat.nl/xsd/island.xsd">Aldabra</isl:name>
2 rows selected.
SQL> SELECT i.EXTRACT('/isl:island/isl:name/text()', 'xmlns:isl="http://www.cumquat.nl/xsd/island.xs
d"').GETSTRINGVAL()
2 FROM islands_xsd i
3 /
I.EXTRACT('/ISL:ISLAND/ISL:NAME/TEXT()','XMLNS:ISL="HTTP://WWW.CUMQUAT.NL/XSD/IS
Aldabra
2 rows selected.

This seems wrong to me. I've filed Bug 2400119 to get this looked into by development.
I'd expect any document with an appropriate qualified name to be found by your XPath expression, irrespective of whether syntactically one of the documents happened to use the default namespace syntax.

How to suppress n0: default Namespace prefix in Transformations

Hi,
I use Simple Transformations for serialization of deep structured data.
In the XML File the whole tree needs to use a special namespace. Therefore i use the attribute xmlns="ABC.de" without a namespace prefix in my root element. During serialization SAP generates a default namespace prefix like 'n0:'.
Is it possible to suppress the generated namespace prefix?
Thank you very much for reply
René
Edited by: René Libbert on Feb 14, 2012 8:09 AM

Maybe somebody is interested.
It seems to be a problem on old 640. On a NW 702 the result is as expected. NW 700 was not tested.
Workaround for the 640 is to use as result a STRING field not an XSTRING.
Greetings René

Output XML with a default namespace using XQuery

I'm having a problem with namespaces in an XQuery within ALSB.
We receive XML from a file which doesn't have any namespace and have to transform it into a different structure, giving it a default namespace such as below:
Input XML
<inputRoot>
     <inputAccountName>Joe Bloggs</inputAccountName>
     <inputAccountNumber>10938393</inputAccountNumber>
</inputRoot>
Desired output XML
<outputRoot xmlns="http://www.example.org/outputSchema">
     <outputAccounts>
          <outputAccountName>Joe Bloggs</outputAccountName>
          <outputAccountNumber>10938393</outputAccountNumber>
     </outputAccounts>
</outputRoot>
When I attempt to do this using XQuery mapper tool, I end up with a namespace prefix on the outputRoot. The XQuery and result follows:
XQuery
declare namespace xf = "http://tempuri.org/XQueryProject/scratchTransformations/test/";
declare namespace ns0 = "http://www.example.org/outputSchema";
declare function xf:test($inputRoot1 as element(inputRoot))
as element(ns0:outputRoot) {
<ns0:outputRoot>
<outputAccounts>
<outputAccountName>{ data($inputRoot1/inputAccountName) }</outputAccountName>
<outputAccountNumber>{ data($inputRoot1/inputAccountNumber) }</outputAccountNumber>
</outputAccounts>
</ns0:outputRoot>
declare variable $inputRoot1 as element(inputRoot) external;
xf:test($inputRoot1)
Result
<ns0:outputRoot xmlns:ns0="http://www.example.org/outputSchema">
     <outputAccounts>
          <outputAccountName>inputAccountName_1</outputAccountName>
          <outputAccountNumber>inputAccountNumber_1</outputAccountNumber>
     </outputAccounts>
</ns0:outputRoot>
How can I write the XQuery in such a way thay the namespace prefix isn't output? I've tried many different methods with no success. I can't declare a default element namespace because my input element doesn't have a namespace
Thanks in advance

I spoke too soon, it didn't work quite as perfectly as I'd thought :-) It turns out our client can't handle the xml with the namespace prefix but we've worked out the solution to return XML in the format we originally needed.
Example below:
XQuery
declare namespace xf = "http://tempuri.org/XQueryProject/scratchTransformations/test/";
declare default element namespace "http://www.example.org/outputSchema";
declare namespace ns1 = ""
declare function xf:test($inputRoot1 as element(ns1:inputRoot))
as element(outputRoot) {
<outputRoot>
<outputAccounts>
<outputAccountName>{ data($inputRoot1/inputAccountName) }</outputAccountName>
<outputAccountNumber>{ data($inputRoot1/inputAccountNumber) }</outputAccountNumber>
</outputAccounts>
</outputRoot>
declare variable $inputRoot1 as element(inputRoot) external;
xf:test($inputRoot1)

SELECT returns no result when there is a default namespace definition inXML

Hi,
I have a problem that my select doesn't return any result when there is a default namespace definition in my XML file.
I'm using oracle 11g release 1
XML file stored as a binary XML:
<SIMS xmlns="http://sims.ics.muni.cz" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://sims.ics.muni.cz jh_sims_matricni_vystupy_or.xsd">
<Vystup Datum="2006-07-18" Typ="2" Nazev="Poslední etapy" PocetStudentu="1" PocetStudii="2">
<Student RodneCislo="8001011001">
<Jmeno>Petr</Jmeno>
</Student>
</Vystup>
</SIMS>
This select return no result:
SELECT student.jmeno FROM jh_sims_bin_no_schema s, XMLTable('/SIMS/Vystup/Student' PASSING s.OBJECT_VALUE COLUMNS jmeno VARCHAR2(10) PATH 'Jmeno') student
When I remove default namespace definition (xmlns="http://sims.ics.muni.cz") everything works fine and the same SELECT returns "Petr". Also when the file is stored in object relational storage everything works fine!
<SIMS xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://sims.ics.muni.cz jh_sims_matricni_vystupy_or.xsd">
<Vystup Datum="2006-07-18" Typ="2" Nazev="Poslední etapy" PocetStudentu="1" PocetStudii="2">
<Student RodneCislo="8001011001">
<Jmeno>Petr</Jmeno>
</Student>
</Vystup>
</SIMS>
Thanks for any help!
Jan Hruby

Hi Jan,
You need to specify the default namespace of the document in the XMLNamespaces clause :
SELECT student.jmeno
FROM jh_sims_bin_no_schema s,
     XMLTable(
      XMLNamespaces(default 'http://sims.ics.muni.cz'),
      '/SIMS/Vystup/Student'
      PASSING s.OBJECT_VALUE
      COLUMNS jmeno VARCHAR2(10) PATH 'Jmeno'
     ) student
;

Extracting XML values with namespace prefixes

Hint: I put this topic in "SQL and PL/SQL" but that was a bad idea, I think.
Hi!
I have a XML file:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://test.epuap.gov.pl/FeResourceServlet/wzor_lokalny/InstytucjaPubliczna/Deklaracja_DT/styl.xsl"?>
<wnio:Deklaracja
xmlns:adr="http://crd.gov.pl/xml/schematy/adres/2008/05/09/"
xmlns:ds="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#"
xmlns:ev="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events"
xmlns:inst="http://crd.gov.pl/xml/schematy/instytucja/2008/05/09/"
xmlns:meta="http://crd.gov.pl/xml/schematy/meta/2008/05/09/"
xmlns:oso="http://crd.gov.pl/xml/schematy/osoba/2008/05/09/"
xmlns:str="http://crd.gov.pl/xml/schematy/struktura/2009/11/16/"
xmlns:wnio="http://test.epuap.gov.pl/FeResourceServlet/wzor_lokalny/InstytucjaPubliczna/Deklaracja_DT/"
xmlns:xforms="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xxforms="http://orbeon.org/oxf/xml/xforms"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://test.epuap.gov.pl/FeResourceServlet/wzor_lokalny/InstytucjaPubliczna/Deklaracja_DT/ http://test.epuap.gov.pl/FeResourceServlet/wzor_lokalny/InstytucjaPubliczna/Deklaracja_DT/schemat.xsd">
                            <wnio:OpisDokumentu><str:CID>[email protected]</str:CID><meta:Identyfikator typIdentyfikatora="idFormularza"><meta:Wartosc>InstytucjaPubliczna/Deklaracja podatku od środków transportowych DT-1</meta:Wartosc></meta:Identyfikator></wnio:OpisDokumentu>
                            <wnio:Naglowek>
                                <wnio:KodFormularza kodSystemowy="DT-1(3)"/>
                                <wnio:WariantFormularza>3</wnio:WariantFormularza>
                                <wnio:Rok>2008</wnio:Rok>
                                <wnio:ObowiazekSkladaniaDeklaracji>1</wnio:ObowiazekSkladaniaDeklaracji>
                                <wnio:MiejsceSkladania/>
                            </wnio:Naglowek>
                            <wnio:Podatnik>
                                <wnio:OsobaPrawna>
                                    <wnio:NIP>345678901</wnio:NIP>
                                    <wnio:PelnaNazwa>Testowa Instytucja Publiczna</wnio:PelnaNazwa>
                                    <wnio:NazwaSkrocona/>
                                    <wnio:REGON>234512345</wnio:REGON>
                                </wnio:OsobaPrawna>
                                <wnio:AdresSiedzibyZamieszkania>
                                    <wnio:KodKraju>PL</wnio:KodKraju>
                                    <wnio:Wojewodztwo>ŚLĄSKIE</wnio:Wojewodztwo>
                                    <wnio:Powiat>Katowice</wnio:Powiat>
                                    <wnio:Gmina>Katowice (gmina miejska)</wnio:Gmina>
                                    <wnio:Ulica>ul. Mikołowska</wnio:Ulica>
                                    <wnio:NrDomu>100</wnio:NrDomu>
                                    <wnio:NrLokalu>924</wnio:NrLokalu>
                                    <wnio:Miejscowosc>Katowice (miasto)</wnio:Miejscowosc>
                                    <wnio:KodPocztowy>40-065</wnio:KodPocztowy>
                                    <wnio:Poczta>Katowice</wnio:Poczta>
                                </wnio:AdresSiedzibyZamieszkania>
                            </wnio:Podatnik>
                            <wnio:PozycjeSzczegolowe>
                                <wnio:D.1>
                                    <wnio:P_22/>
                                    <wnio:P_23/>
                                </wnio:D.1>
                                <wnio:D.2>
                                    <wnio:P_28/>
                                    <wnio:P_29/>
                                </wnio:D.2>
                                <wnio:P_82/>
                                <wnio:P_83/>
                            </wnio:PozycjeSzczegolowe>
                            <wnio:Zalacznik_DT-1A>
                                <wnio:P_1/>
                                <wnio:P_2/>
                                <wnio:P_22>1</wnio:P_22>
                            </wnio:Zalacznik_DT-1A>
                            <wnio:Zalacznik_DT-1A>
                                <wnio:P_1/>
                                <wnio:P_2/>
                                <wnio:P_22>3</wnio:P_22>
                            </wnio:Zalacznik_DT-1A>
                        </wnio:Deklaracja>and an overloaded function:
function dodaj_DT1_z_xml(p_dt1 in out nocopy XMLType) return number as
r_dt1   POD_SRTR_DT1%rowtype;
r_dt1a POD_SRTR_DT1A%rowtype;
r_sdek POD_SRTR_DEKLARACJE%rowtype;
l_wariantDT1 number(2);
l_xosf XMLType;
l_xosp XMLType;
l_xadr XMLType;
l_xszcz XMLType;
l_zal   XMLType;
l_z     XMLType;
l_zno   pls_integer;
l_xml   XMLType;
l_ns    varchar2(10);
-- xmlns:wnio="http://test.epuap.gov.pl/FeResourceServlet/wzor_lokalny/InstytucjaPubliczna/Deklaracja_DT/"
begin
if --p_dt1.existsNode('/wnio:Deklaracja')=0 and
     p_dt1.existsNode('/Deklaracja','xmlns:wnio="http://test.epuap.gov.pl/FeResourceServlet/wzor_lokalny/InstytucjaPubliczna/Deklaracja_DT/"')=0
then return -2; end if;
if p_dt1.existsNode('/wnio:Deklaracja')=1 then
    l_ns := 'wnio:';
end if;
if p_dt1.existsNode('/'||l_ns||'Deklaracja')=0 then                     return -2; end if;
if p_dt1.existsNode('/'||l_ns||'Deklaracja/'||l_ns||'Naglowek')=0 then            return -3; end if;
if p_dt1.existsNode('/'||l_ns||'Deklaracja/'||l_ns||'Podatnik')=0 then            return -4; end if;
if p_dt1.existsNode('/'||l_ns||'Deklaracja/'||l_ns||'PozycjeSzczegolowe')=0 then return -5; end if;
return 1;
end;
function dodaj_DT1_z_xml(p_dt1 in out nocopy CLOB) return number is
l_xml   XMLType;
begin
l_xml := XMLType(p_dt1);
return dodaj_DT1_z_xml(l_xml);
end dodaj_DT1_z_xml;I run the code:declare
v_clob CLOB;
v_out   number;
begin
SELECT dok_content INTO v_clob FROM EPUAP.epuap_dokumenty WHERE dok_id=13;
v_out := POD_PCK_SRTR_DT1.DODAJ_DT1_Z_XML(v_clob);
DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line(v_out);
end;the output is -2. What must I change to find the node "wnio:Deklaracja"? I'm newbie in XML and namespaces :(
Help me, please...
Oracle version is 10.2.0.3

Hi,
If you declare a namespace prefix then corresponding elements must be qualified.
So, either do :
p_dt1.existsNode('/wnio:Deklaracja','xmlns:wnio="http://test.epuap.gov.pl/FeResourceServlet/wzor_lokalny/InstytucjaPubliczna/Deklaracja_DT/"')or use a default namespace declaration :
p_dt1.existsNode('/Deklaracja','xmlns="http://test.epuap.gov.pl/FeResourceServlet/wzor_lokalny/InstytucjaPubliczna/Deklaracja_DT/"')BTW, could you explain what are you trying to accomplish?

How to parse XML document with default namespace with JDOM XPath

Hi All,
I am having difficulty parsing using Saxon and TagSoup parser on a namespace html document. The relevant content of this document are as follows:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
</head>
<body>
    <div id="container">
        <div id="content">
            <table class="sresults">
                <tr>
                    <td>
                        <a href="http://www.abc.com/areas" title="Hollywood, CA">hollywood</a>
                    </td>
                    <td>
                        <a href="http://www.abc.com/areas" title="San Jose, CA">san jose</a>
                    </td>
                    <td>
                        <a href="http://www.abc.com/areas" title="San Francisco, CA">san francisco</a>
                    </td>
                    <td>
                        <a href="http://www.abc.com/areas" title="San Diego, CA">San diego</a>
                    </td>
              </tr>
</body>
</html>
Below is the relevant code snippets illustrates how I have attempted to retrieve the contents (value of <a>):
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             import org.jdom.*;
             import org.jdom.xpath.*;
             import org.saxpath.*;
             import org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup.Parser;
( 1 )       frInHtml = new FileReader("C:\\Tmp\\ABC.html");
( 2 )       brInHtml = new BufferedReader(frInHtml);
( 3 ) //    SAXBuilder saxBuilder = new SAXBuilder("org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser");
( 4 )       SAXBuilder saxBuilder = new SAXBuilder("org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup.Parser");
( 5 )       org.jdom.Document jdomDocument = saxbuilder.build(brInHtml);
( 6 )       XPath xpath = XPath.newInstance("/ns:html/ns:body/ns:div[@id='container']/ns:div[@id='content']/ns:table[@class='sresults']/ns:tr/ns:td/ns:a");
( 7 )       xpath.addNamespace("ns", "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml");
( 8 )       java.util.List list = (java.util.List) (xpath.selectNodes(jdomDocument));
( 9 )       Iterator iterator = list.iterator();
( 10 )     while (iterator.hasNext())
( 11 )     {
( 12 )            Object object = iterator.next();
( 13 ) //         if (object instanceof Element)
( 14 ) //               System.out.println(((Element)object).getTextNormalize());
( 15 )             if (object instanceof Content)
( 16 )                   System.out.println(((Content)object).getValue());
.This program would work on the same document without the default namespace, hence, it would not be necessary to include ns prefix along in the XPath statements (line 6-7) either. Moreover, I was using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser to have successfully retrieve content of <a> from the same document without default namespace in the past.
I would like to achieve the following objectives if possible:
( i ) Exclude DTD and namespace in order to simplifying the parsing process. How this could be done?
( ii ) If this is not possible, how to include it in XPath statements (line 6-7) so that the value of <a> is picked up correctly?
( iii ) Would changing from org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser to org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup.Parser make any difference as far as using XPath is concerned?
( iv ) Failing to exlude DTD, how to change the lookup of a PUBLIC DTD to a local SYSTEM one and include a local DTD for reference?
I am running JDK 1.6.0_06, Netbeans 6.1, JDOM 1.1, Saxon6-5-5, Tagsoup 1.2 on Windows XP platform.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Jack

Here's an example of using a custom EntityResolver with the standard DocumentBuilder provided by the JDK. The code may or may not be similar for the parsers that you're using.
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringReader;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.xml.sax.EntityResolver;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
public class ParseExamples
    private final static String COMMON_XML
        = "<music>"
        +     "<artist name=\"Anderson, Laurie\">"
        +         "<album>Big Science</album>"
        +         "<album>Strange Angels</album>"
        +     "</artist>"
        +     "<artist name=\"Fine Young Cannibals\">"
        +         "<album>The Raw & The Cooked</album>"
        +     "</artist>"
        + "</music>";
    private final static String COMMON_DTD
        = "<!ELEMENT music (artist*)>"
        + "<!ELEMENT artist (album+)>"
        + "<!ELEMENT album (#PCDATA)>"
        + "<!ATTLIST artist name CDATA #REQUIRED>";
    public static void main(String[] argv)
    throws Exception
        // this version uses just a SYSTEM identifier - note that it gets turned
        // into a file: URL
        String xml = "<!DOCTYPE music SYSTEM \"bar\">"
                   + COMMON_XML;
        // this version uses both PUBLIC and SYSTEM identifiers; the SYSTEM ID
        // gets munged, the PUBLIC ID doesn't
//        String xml = "<!DOCTYPE music PUBLIC \"foo\" \"bar\">"
//                   + COMMON_XML;
        DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        dbf.setValidating(true);
        DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
        db.setEntityResolver(new EntityResolver()
            public InputSource resolveEntity(String publicId, String systemId)
                throws SAXException, IOException
                System.out.println("publicId = " + publicId);
                System.out.println("systemId = " + systemId);
                return new InputSource(new StringReader(COMMON_DTD));
        Document dom = db.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(xml)));
        System.out.println("root element name = " + dom.getDocumentElement().getNodeName());
}

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Hi,
I have an XML file, which I'm opening with the Excel application. The stylesheet I use is horizontal.xsl.
The problem arised when the XML has data in the format "1/4" or "1/16", which is translated in the Excel as date (like "01/04/2007").
I think I have to set the default cell type to "Text" instead of "General". Does anyone know how it can be done?

Is this the same question as idoZo, if so jigg has already answered it. If not then you should post your own query not hijack someone elses giving a clear and concise question, "how to set it??" doesn't help you or other in the forum to provide you with a solution.
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