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ORA-31011, ORA-19202 and LPX-240 from XML Query (Doc ID 1596080.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 10, 2021

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.1.0.6 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Getting below error -

select XMLTRANSFORM (<COLUMN_NAME>)
from <TABLE_NAME>;

Error:
*
Error at line 2
ORA-31011: XML parsing failed
ORA-19202: Error occurred in XML processing
LPX-00240: element-start tag is not well formed
Error at line 1

This error is only coming in 11g but the same code runs fine in 10.2.0.4 and 10.2.0.5.

Cause

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