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DataPump Import Of XMLTYPE Fails With Errors ORA-31693 ORA-29913 ORA-31011 ORA-19202 LPX-217 Invalid Character (Doc ID 1391688.1)

Last updated on MARCH 04, 2019

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.2.0.2 to 11.2.0.3 [Release 11.2]
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
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Symptoms

In 10gR2, in a table with an XMLTYPE column you inserted valid specific characters (conform the database character set). Then imported this table into 11.2.0.2. If now you export this table using expdp version 11.2.0.2 and import it, then you will see the errors:

ORA-31011: XML parsing failed
ORA-19202: Error occurred in XML processing
LPX-00217: invalid character 8221 (U+201D)


like demonstrated below:

Changes

 

Cause

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