Error when converting XML from a CLOB column to XMLType colum

Question

I'm trying to convert some xml data coming from a CLOB to a XMLType column.

The XML have some accentuated characters as values (documents are written in french).

Here is what the instruction looks like :

insert into mytable (id, xmldata) values (p_id, xmltype(p_xmldata));

p_id and p_xmldata are variables previously extracted from the original table.

I think the french characters prevents XMLType to work correctly. Or maybe malformed XML tags? The problem is, the table holds 3k+ XML documents and only 2 are converted in the XMLType column.

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Update these are the errors I get when I try a simple

select xmltype(xmldata) from mytable

ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error ORA-06512: at "SYS.XMLTYPE", line 254 ORA-06512: at line 1

Answer 1

I used createxml method and now it works fine

insert into mytable (id, xmldata) values (p_id, xmltype.createxml(p_xmldata));