Oracle Forms - Understanding XML Page - 2

Now, let's take a look at one of our Menu Modules, customers_mmb.xml. Because we can't convert a menu in a Forms to APEX conversion project, the information in here isn't that interesting. During conversion, we will create some horizontally oriented images that can be used as a menu. But the information held in the MenuItem Name tags is interesting to us. You will encounter a few names here that point to a certain form in our application. These names will be used in our conversion project.

In the XML that we created from our Oracle Reports application, we see a lot of information such as how the report is built, what font is used, some layout information about the building blocks of the reports page, and so on. But none of this information is useful for us. The only thing we need is the query. As we can see in the following screenshot, Employees.xml is a fairly big file:

The SQL query we're interested in is set in the select tags in this XML file. When we upload the file to the APEX conversion tool, we will use only this information:

The last things we will discuss in this section are the PL/SQL Libraries. In the following screenshot, we opened the wizard.pld file that we created earlier. As we can see, it's just a definition of the Wizard Package and Package body. To understand this function, it will be useful to look into this code: