Hello list, One of our developer wanted to insert a record using XMLTYPE, but, got the following error: ERROR at line 2: ORA-21700: object does not exist or is marked for delete ORA-06512: at "SYS.XMLTYPE", line 0 ORA-06512: at line 1 I have searched on google and metalink without any luck. Did any has any advice or solution for this? -- Best Regards, Syed Jaffar Hussain 8i,9i & 10g, OCP DBA Banque Saudi Fransi, Saudi Arabia http://jaffardba.blogspot.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Winners don't do different things. They do things differently." -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l