in reply to Perl, Oracle, and Xquery
Maybe I am misunderstanding this, but are you trying to prepare more than one SQL statement in one go? You have to split it up and get rid of any delimiters (statement-terminating semicolons?) that might be in some way special to Xquery as opposed to obeying the pure SQL syntax.
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