Using xmltable in forms 10g

Question

I am getting the error *'Error 103 at line 15, column 30 Encountered the symbol "(" when expecting one of the following: ... '*.
My query that is causing this error is :
SELECT *
from XMLTable('for $e in /Applicants/Applicant return $e' PASSING v_result COLUMNS Cnum number PATH 'Cnum')
,firstname varchar2(200) PATH 'FirstName'
,surname varchar2(200) PATH 'Surname')
It is complaining about the bracket '(' just after the XMLTable keyword.
Does forms maybe not understand the XMLTable keyword?? as the exact same code works fine when run directly on the db.
Please can someone help me identify the problem or an alternate solution.

Answer 1

user2691144 wrote:
as the exact same code works fine when run directly on the db.You mean using SQL*Plus? Anyway; forms has it's own PL/SQL engine and as XMLDB is probably not a part of it this could be the cause of your problem. As a workaround you could write your xquery in a database procedure und call this procedure from forms.
cheers