XML data from BLOB to CLOB - character set conversion

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I'm trying to solve a problem with a character set conversion in PL/SQL in the following scenario:
1. source is an XML as a BLOB variable.
2. target is an XML as a CLOB variable.
3. the problem I have is the following:
- database character set is set to UTF-8
- XML character set could be anything (UTF-8, ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-2, ASCII, ...)
- I need to write a procedure which converts the source BLOB content into the target CLOB taking into account the XML encoding and converts it into the DB default character set (UTF8).
I've been able to implement a simple conversion function. However, this function expects static XML encoding ISO-8859-1. The main part of the function looks as follows:
buffer := UTL_RAW.cast_to_varchar2(
UTL_RAW.convert(
DBMS_LOB.SUBSTR(source_blob_variable, 16000, pos)
, 'American_America.UTF8'
, 'American_America.we8iso8859p1')
Does anyone have an idea how to rewrite the code to handle "any" XML encoding in the source BLOB file? In other words, is there a function in Oracle which converts XML character set names into Oracle character set values (ISO-8859-1 to we8iso8859p1, UTF-8 to UTF8, ...)?
Thanks a lot for any help.
Julius

I want to pass a BLOB to some "createXML" procedure and get a proper XMLType in UTF8 character set, properly converted from whatever character set is the input in.As per documentation the generated XML has always the encoding set at the client side depending on NLS_LANG (default UTF-8), regardless of the input encoding, so I don't see a need to parse the PI of the XML:
C:\>echo %NLS_LANG%
%NLS_LANG%
C:\>sqlplus
SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Wed Apr 30 08:54:12 2008
Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle.  All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
SQL> var cur refcursor
SQL>
SQL> declare
  2     b   blob := utl_raw.cast_to_raw ('<a>myxml</a>');
  3  begin
  4     open :cur for select xmlroot (xmltype (utl_raw.cast_to_varchar2 (b))) xml from dual;
  5  end;
  6  /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL>
SQL> print cur
XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><a>myxml</a>
SQL> exit
Disconnected from Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
C:\>set NLS_LANG=GERMAN_GERMANY.WE8ISO8859P1
C:\>sqlplus
SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Mi Apr 30 08:55:02 2008
Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle.  All rights reserved.
SQL> var cur refcursor
SQL>
SQL> declare
  2     b   blob := utl_raw.cast_to_raw ('<a>myxml</a>');
  3  begin
  4     open :cur for select xmlroot (xmltype (utl_raw.cast_to_varchar2 (b))) xml from dual;
  5  end;
  6  /
PL/SQL-Prozedur erfolgreich abgeschlossen.
SQL>
SQL> print cur
XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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