I get the message "namespace self used but not declared"  probably
       because oraclexmlparserv2 doesn't support self function.

No, self:: isn't a function it is an axis prefix and isn't an optional
feature.  Most likely you incorrectly typed it with a single : not two
self:foo is foo in with namespace prefix self. 

David

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