XPATH Syntax

Simple question. Can someone please provide the proper syntax for placing an Input Variable into the query-database XPATH statement? I cannot even get this statement to compile (or any variants of it):
orcl:query-database('select ename from emp where empno = bpws:getVariableData('inputVariable','payload')',false(),false(),'jdbc:oracle:thin:scott/tiger@localhost:1521:ORCL')
Here is the detailed error:
Error(30): [Error ORABPEL-10039]: invalid xpath expression [Description]: in line 30 of "C:\OraBPELPM_1\integration\jdev\jdev\mywork\BPELws\JDBC\JDBC.bpel", xpath expression "orcl:query-database('select ename from emp where empno = bpws:getVariableData('inputVariable')',false(),false(),'jdbc:oracle:thin:scott/tiger@localhost:1521:ORCL')" specified in <from> is not valid, because XPath query syntax error. Syntax error while parsing xpath expression "orcl:query-database('select ename from emp where empno = bpws:getVariableData('inputVariable')',false(),false(),'jdbc:oracle:thin:scott/tiger@localhost:1521:ORCL')", at position "79" the exception is Expected: ). Please verify the xpath query "orcl:query-database('select ename from emp where empno = bpws:getVariableData('inputVariable')',false(),false(),'jdbc:oracle:thin:scott/tiger@localhost:1521:ORCL')" which is defined in BPEL process. . [Potential fix]: Please make sure the expression is valid.
I have been trying to XSQL to work and it suffers from XPATH issues at runtime.
Clemens, any suggestions here? I was thinking perhaps of using ora:parseEscapedXML to forceably create the proper expression after concatenating the orcl:query-database together with the EMPNO after it is assigned to a holding String variable. Not sure it would work though. It does not look like you can perform 2 successive COPY TO / FROM in one set of tags.
Thanks!

Does anybody have any suggestions for this issue? Has anyone gotten this aspect of XPATH to work correctly? HELP!

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