Urgent- xml parsing failed - xmlelement

Question

hi
what am i doing wrong here?
oracle 10.2.0.1
AL32UTF8 charset.
trying to generate an xml using xdk
running this
SELECT XMLELEMENT("date", sysdate) FROM dual
expecting this
<date>2005-10-25</date>
getting this
ORA-31011: XML parsing failed
tried this:
ALTER SESSION SET NLS_DATE_FORMAT = 'DD-MM-YYYY'
result: session altered
tried re-running select query, but same bad result.
dbms_xmlgen,xmlagg and other commands run fine.
i need to do this so that i can use special inline formatting such as this:
<sa>
<object class="asdad" name="asd">
<attribute name="as">
<string>asd</string>
</attribute>
</object>
<object>
</object>
</sa>
setformattype doesnt help in xmlgen since such format (<object class="asd" name="sad">) doesnt seem to be possible.
YELP!
is there a workaround possible without using xmlelement? what am i doing wrong in xmlelement??

Answer 1

XML Element isn't part of XDK at all. It's a part of the SQL/XML publishing capability of XML DB. Can you make sure that you do not have something that is masquerading as XMLElement on your system
Eg make sure you get this output
SQL> desc XMLELEMENT
ERROR:
ORA-04043: object XMLELEMENT does not existIf something get's described by the describe please drop it..
Can you try
SQL>  select xmlElement("FOO",'baa') from dual;
XMLELEMENT("FOO",'BAA')
<FOO>baa</FOO>and
SQL> select XMLFOREST('baa' as "FOO") from dual;
XMLFOREST('BAA'AS"FOO")
<FOO>baa</FOO>