UTF8 problem with XMLGEN

Question

Hi All,
I'm having problems with the XML generation. The problem is that when we try to generate XML using a query, such as:
select xmlgen.getXML('select content_id, locale_id, content from bc_content_local where delete_p = ''0''',1) from dual;
It works fine so long as of the information retrieved by the query is ASCII. But if there are UTF8 characters in there, the
generation of the XML fails.
I wasn't actually getting an error message. It would work and return XML but as soon as the first UTF-8 character was encountered,
the XML just stopped.
Two questions:
1) Does the XML generation support UTF-8? 2)
If it does (I seem to remember hearing that it did) what has to be done so that this
works correctly?
We are using a UTF8 characterset we set during database creation. I have also tried setting up NLS_LANG in the client registrty to american_america.utf8 - but in both client and server I get teh same message.
Database: Oracle 8.1.7 Standard Edition on Sun-Solaris 2.8
Any help greatly appreciated,
Nilendu Misra
[email protected]

Answer 1

Ok, I found we have DBMS_XMLQUERY installed on the schema other than SYS too. But when I issue the same statement using this package I get a different error:
SQL> select dbms_xmlquery.getXML('select content_id, locale_id, content
2 from bc_content_local where delete_p = ''0''',1) from dual;
select dbms_xmlquery.getXML('select content_id, locale_id, content
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-29532: Java call terminated by uncaught Java exception:
java.lang.NullPointerException
ORA-06512: at "SYSTEM.DBMS_XMLQUERY", line 212
ORA-06512: at "SYSTEM.DBMS_XMLQUERY", line 220
ORA-06512: at "SYSTEM.DBMS_XMLQUERY", line 210
ORA-06512: at "SYSTEM.DBMS_XMLQUERY", line 228
ORA-06512: at line 1
I tried searching the XML forum and Metalink but I found most of the reports on this nature of problem are still unanswered.
Thanks in appreciation,
Nilendu
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