XMII Converting Column Name from "14_name_g/L" to "_14_name_g_L"?

Hi,
Is there a way to stop XMII from automatically converting the oracle column name "14_name_g/L" to "_14_name_g_L"? Or is there anything I can do to change it so that the right column name is displayed to the user?
I looked in the XML output of the query template in the BLS and the Column description is correct, but the column name gets automatically converted by XMII.
Additionally, I tried entering the column name "14_name_g/L" directly into an XML variable in a BLS transaction (as part of a valid xml document) and received the error: "Invalid XML String: The content of elements must consist of well-formed character data or markup.
I also tried converting the XMLOutput of the Query with an XSLT, but it didn't seem to work and if XMII won't accept the correct format in an XML variable I wasn't very optimistic about the XSLT working without XMII converting the XML document back to the format it prefers.
Any thoughts or ideas of what I can do about this?
Thanks alot for the help!
Kerby

Thanks everyone for the response. I think I need to provide a few more details about our implementation to clarify things.
This situation comes up when we are doing a 'CrossTab' or 'Pivot' of data in the database and returning it to the user as a CSV file. The pivoted columns we are creating are the distinct <materialNo>_<ParameterName>_<ParameterUOM> from the original data. The result of the query template is directly returned to the user as a CSV file, and so the columns are never shown in an applet or grid. We are also running into the Oracle 30 character limit for column names, so would prefer to keep the current convention of "14_name_g/L" instead of adding the g_per_L idea. Because we are pivoting on the data present in the original columns, the column name is not known ahead of time.
Is there any way to do change this after retrieving the data from the query template so it can be displayed correctly? Or do I need to look for alternatives?
From the OutputXML of the calling Query Template, an example problem column looks like:
<Column Description="14_Conductivity_g/L" MaxRange="1" MinRange="0" Name="_14_Conductivity_g_L" SQLDataType="12" SourceColumn="14_Conductivity_g/L" />
and then the actual xml rows have the column name as the identifier.
<row>
<_14_Conductivity_g_L>17</_14_Conductivity_g_L>
</row>
What I have tried is to create an xslt which overwrites the column name with column description. That did not work as it still showed the leading '_' and replaced the '/' with '_'. I am not sure if it didn't work because of the inaccurate column name in the row definition or if XMII replaced the column name again with its preferred column definition. I considered trying to change the xslt to also overwrite the columnName in the rows with the correct columnName, but I wasn't sure if that would work either or XMII would overwrite the values anyway?
Thoughts or ideas for workarounds? Or is this pretty much the limitation and need to accept the leading _ and find another separator for g/L?
Thanks alot for the help!
Kerby

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T3_Field1    varchar
NULL,
T3_Field2    varchar
NULL,
T3_FK        int
NOT NULL
CONSTRAINT [FK_T3_T2]
FOREIGN KEY (T3_FK)
REFERENCES dbo.Table2
(T2_PK)
create
Table dbo.Table4
T4_PK        int
NOT NULL
Identity(1, 1)
CONSTRAINT [PK_T4_Constraint]
PRIMARY KEY (T4_PK),
T4_Field1    varchar
NULL,
T4_Field2    varchar
NULL,
T4_FK        int
NOT NULL
CONSTRAINT [FK_T4_T3]
FOREIGN KEY (T4_FK)
REFERENCES dbo.Table3
(T3_PK)
GO
--Create a basic view to select some data
CREATE
VIEW dbo.AliasView1
AS
select
t2.T2_FK as Table2_ForeignKey,
t1.T1_Field1 as Table1_FieldOne,
t2.T2_Field1 as Table2_FieldOne
FROM Table1 t1
Left outer
join Table2 t2 on t2.T2_FK
= t1.T1_PK;
GO
--Create another view that select basic data, and also selecting data from view 1
CREATE
VIEW dbo.AliasView2
AS
select
v1.Table1_FieldOne
as Table1_FieldOne,
v1.Table2_FieldOne
as Table2_FieldOne,
t3.T3_Field1 as Table3_FieldOne,
t3.T3_Field2
FROM Table3 t3
Left outer
join AliasView1 v1 on v1.Table2_ForeignKey
= t3.T3_PK;
GO
--My attempt to get the desired output, but no luck
SELECT
col.COLUMN_NAME as AliasColumnName, col.DATA_TYPE, col.CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH
as max_length, colu.*
FROM
information_schema.COLUMNS col
left
outer join
(SELECT
VIEW_SCHEMA, VIEW_NAME, COLUMN_NAME,
min(TABLE_NAME)
as TABLE_NAME
FROM information_schema.VIEW_COLUMN_USAGE colu
WHERE VIEW_NAME =
'AliasView2'
Group by VIEW_SCHEMA, VIEW_NAME, COLUMN_NAME
) COLU ON colU.VIEW_NAME
= col.TABLE_NAME
and colu.COLUMN_NAME
= col.COLUMN_NAME
left
outer join
(select a.name
as TableName, c.name
as FieldName
from sys.foreign_key_columns fk
join sys.all_objects a
on a.object_id
= fk.parent_object_id
join sys.all_columns c
on c.object_id
= a.object_id
and c.column_id
= fk.parent_column_id
join sys.all_objects ar
on ar.object_id
= fk.referenced_object_id
join sys.all_columns cr
on cr.object_id
= ar.object_id
and cr.column_id
= fk.referenced_column_id
join sys.schemas scr
on scr.schema_id
= ar.schema_id
) fks on fks.TableName
= colu.TABLE_NAME
and fks.FieldName
= colu.COLUMN_NAME
WHERE COL.TABLE_NAME
= 'AliasView2'
order
by col.ORDINAL_POSITION
This is the results being returned: (That is not 100% what I am looking for)
AliasColumnName
DATA_TYPE
max_length
VIEW_SCHEMA
VIEW_NAME
COLUMN_NAME
TABLE_NAME
Table1_FieldOne
varchar
1
dbo
AliasView2
Table1_FieldOne
AliasView1
Table2_FieldOne
varchar
1
dbo
AliasView2
Table2_FieldOne
AliasView1
Table3_FieldOne
varchar
1
NULL
NULL
NULL
NULL
T3_Field2
varchar
1
dbo
AliasView2
T3_Field2
Table3
The desired results must be like the following:
AliasColumnName
DATA_TYPE
max_length
VIEW_SCHEMA
VIEW_NAME
COLUMN_NAME
TABLE_NAME
Table1_FieldOne
varchar
1
dbo
AliasView2
T1_Field1
Table1
Table2_FieldOne
varchar
1
dbo
AliasView2
T2_Field1
Table2
Table3_FieldOne
varchar
1
dbo
AliasView2
T3_Field1
Table3
T3_Field2
varchar
1
dbo
AliasView2
T3_Field2
Table3
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