May 8
September 5

This is a backup of my post, with the same title, on the AMIS Technology Blog site

It is nagging…

I got an email from that you are able to download the handouts from ODTUG until half September (download them now, 1/2 September they will be archived and you will need an account to access them). Because I am highly interested on XML / XMLDB stuff, I scrolled through the list. My eye caught the presentation of Mr. Ken Atkins. As far as I can see from his picture on his website he looks like a nice, cool guy, but I can’t resist making some remarks here about the slides from his presentation: “XML Data Into and Out of Oracle – Using PL/SQL”. Making these remarks is difficult, I wasn’t there, I don’t know the exact context in which they are said in, but…

Anyway. Hereby some of my pointers, based on this presentation…

August 28

Sometimes I forget the stuff I have learned… And sometimes someone, I am lucky enough (in this case on the OTN XMLDB Forum), is so friendly to point out how silly I am 😉

Last Friday I was testing Binary XMLType Tables in combination with use of an XMLIndex; Both using / being based on an XML Schema. The objects both used namespace references to the, for binary use, registered XML Schema. Whatever I did, it didn’t react as was described in the manuals.

It doesn’t help, that I know now that I should have been more observing to see what XMLSpy had generated as an example XML Instance document, nor the fact that I pinpointed to much on syntax and storage statements.

Luckily, in my mind, always conspicuous on stuff related to namespaces, I was so “smart” to not create a Oracle Support Request, but addressed it via the XMLDB OTN Forum… I was very embarrassed to read about (and afterwards had a good laugh about my mistake) as “Chandra” showed me my failure to see the simplest mistake…