Writing and retreiving clob

Question

I have written an xsl page which is very long (about 6k) and I think to store it in a table in a clob field so that I could retreive it later to apply to my xml page by using dbms_xmlquery.setxslt(queryctx,xslt_clob);
I am trying to insert xsl page directly into a table like this:
create table temp_table(xslt_clob clob);
insert into temp_table(xslt_clob) values (
'<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<MainTag>
</MainTag>
When I do that I get an error:
ORA-01704: string literal too long
Are there any other ways to insert clob into and retreive it from a table?
Thanx.

Answer 1

I didn't see the fix for this posted, and I was running into the same thing.
After trying to run the INSERT directly, I wound up creating a PL/SQL procedure to do the work. Once I did that it still wouldn't work and after some consultation with one of our DBA's he was able to get it to work. Then he went on to explain that SQLPlus has a problem with >4 or >6K for inserts's even though the CLOB is quite a bit larger so you have to create a procedure or package.
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE Loadxmlstylesheet IS
poXML CLOB;
BEGIN
poXML := '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet VERSION="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
exclude-result-prefixes="env xs">
     <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template>...</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>';
INSERT INTO xml_stylesheets
VALUES (1, 'DBQueryToXMLOut', XMLTYPE(poXML));
COMMIT;
--Handle the exceptions
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
     Pkg_Errorhandler.savemsg (p_code => SQLCODE,
p_severity => 'F',
p_message => SUBSTR (SQLERRM, 1, 900),
p_src_name => 'loadXMLStylesheet',
p_application_id => 'loadXMLStylesheet'
END Loadxmlstylesheet;
/