Using web.show_document to open xml file

I have successfully created an xml file and saved it to a directory on my hard drive. I was tyring to find answers to Client_OLE2 and stumbled upon Web.Show_Document to open this file. Essentially the file is in a spreadsheet format so when I manually open using IE then Excel is launched. Anyway, currently I am running forms locally and have set a virtual-directory virtual-path in my orion-web.xml file. My virtual path is /report_tmp/. So in my form I have issued the following call to launch a browser and display the file:
Web.Show_Document('/report_tmp/'||v_filename, '_BLANK');
This call does not produce any errors nor does it display the file. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
c

Is the browser launching?
If it is have you tried a show source on the browser window?
Sometimes if you open an XML file in a browser you get a blank page but the XML is there. Something to do with the XML format I think. I'm no expert on XML just a behaviour I have observed.

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