XML output email attachment.

Question

Hi All,
Our client is currently suing the XMLP reports in their Receivables applications. The current functionalities are covered in the current report.
1. Generate the invoice report in pdf output. (It uses RDF to generate the xml data)
2. Based on the bursting setup deliver the pdf report to various destination.
3. Send the pdf report as attachment though email.
For this, We need to submit the one concurrent program at the time of processing, it submits the second concurrent program for bursting and then it submits the third concurrent program for attaching the pdf with the mail.
Now based on the latest partner system changes this requirement is changed to deliver the xml file instead of pdf file. They have given the specific tags that needs to be included in the xml file. Please note, these tags are different or same as the table column names.
Example:
Column Name : INVOICE_NUMBER
xml tag : VendorInvoiceNumber.
Is it possible to achieve the whole new requirement. If so, could you please tell me how? I very much appreciate your help in this.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Go to OTN and get the mail example.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/sample_code/tech/pl_sql/htdocs/Utl_Smtp_Sample.html
Then use something like this (example below is sending xml to render as an Excel sheet, has to be opened as an XML table in Outlook 2007):
declare
conn utl_smtp.connection;
begin
conn := demo_mail.begin_mail('sender','recipient list','Subject of email','multipart/mixed; boundary="-----7D81B75CCC90D2974F7A1CBD"');
demo_mail.attach_text(conn,'Enter comments for the message body','text/plain');
demo_mail.attach_text(conn,dbms_xmlgen.getxml('select whatever from wherever'),'application/msexcel',TRUE,'Name of your file.xls');
demo_mail.end_mail(conn);
end;
You can use this as the framework to create your mail sending package:
http://dizwell.com/2008/04/28/automatically-emailing-excel-spreadsheets-from-oracle/
Then just figure out how/where you want the mail sending to be triggered.