I searched for answers, but didn't find anything meaningful. My apologies if this has been answered already.
Does the latest version of dotConnect for Oracle support XMLType in direct mode? There's no way for us to go back to using OCI at this point. We're dug in like a tick.
New version of dotConnect for Oracle 6.70 is released!
It can be downloaded from http://www.devart.com/dotconnect/oracle/download.html (trial version) or from Registered Users' Area (for users with active subscription only).