XML Publisher (now BI Publisher) reports without Using RDF

Hi All,
We am trying to generate XML Publisher (now BI Publisher) reports from Oracle EBS reports without Using RDF.
We have generated the required report using RDF however as we are trying to move away from RDF, we are looking for this type of solution (i.e without RDF). We simply want to use SQL query for XML output.
I tried to generate XML output from a concurrent program which is a SQL query however the output doesn't come out in proper XML format.
I am sure this can be done through XML publisher using pl/sql procedure. By using a procedure and using the function DBMS_XMLGEN.getxml to generate the output in XML format & storing it in a variable declared as CLOB type. The reports are running fine smaller result set but its giving error "Value or Numeric Error' for larger resul set. Following is the way i am using the function:
select DBMS_XMLGEN.GETXML('select * from dual') into result from dual;
Where result is declared as CLOB Type.
Can anyone help please?
Thanks.

I used a different approach.
I registered a concurrent program with executable as XDODTEXE and output as XML.
I added a XML data definition (which contains my SQL query) on XML Publsiher admin and Registerd a template against that XML data definition.
This solved my problem.
Thanks all.

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