You could search the XMLDB forum on OTN ---> http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=34 You could get these errors if you created XMLTYPE (table/column)objects via a registered XML schema in the repository, for instance via begin dbms_xmlschema.registerSchema ('http://www.oracle.nl/myschemas/people' , xdbURIType('/public/myschemas/people.xsd').getClob() , TRUE, TRUE, False, TRUE); end; / if correct, the package will create XMLType tables based on the people.xsd schema. If you afterwards force delete the schema from the repository, and you will do it such a way the table created still exist, then you will get the 21700 error. regards, Marco Gralike -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of The Human Fly Sent: dinsdag 4 april 2006 16:31 To: oracle-l Subject: XMLTYPE 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 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l