Oracle 11.2.0.3

Windows server 2008r2

Apache tomcat 7.0

Oracle APEX 4.2.1

Oracle APEX Listener 2.0

I would like to insert a XML document into the database through an APEX restful web service. The POST into the web service in done with PERL. The following code will insert an null record in a table with column of XMLType type, also it will do the same on a varchar2 column. Perl Code 

use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP:Headers;
 
my $headers = HTTP::Headers->new();
my $url = "http://host:port:apex/<application_workspace>/<restfull ser
+vice module>/<uri template>/
my $sendthis = ('<?xml version="1.0" enconding="utf-8"?>
<students>
<row>
       <name>Mark</name>
      <age>30</age>
</row>
</students>';)
 
$headers -> header('Content-Type' => 'text/xml; charset=utf-8');
my $request = HTTP:Request->new('POST', $url, $headers, $sendthis);
 
$request-> protocol('HTTP/1.1');
my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new();
my $response = $browser->request($request);
my $gotthis= $response->content();
my $the_file_data = $response->content();

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APEX restful service 

Method: POST
Source type: PL/SQL
MIME Types allowed: blank
require secure access: none
 
source:
{declare
doc varchar2(32000);
begin
insert into table <column name>
values(doc);
commit;
end;

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Table code 

{ create table <tablename>
(column name XMLType>);

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The above code will insert an null column into the table. Any ideas why?

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