Question: I have a PL/SQL function in an Oracle database that I can't change. This function takes a parameter which identifies an entity, creates a copy of that entity and then returns the ID of the copy. This looks something like

FUNCTION copy\_entity(id IN NUMBER) RETURN NUMBER

I need to call this function from Hibernate. I tried creating a named SQL query with something similar to

CALL copy\_entity(:id)

as the query, but from this I can't seem to get the return value of the function. Hibernate's "return-scalar" and similar options require a column name to return and I don't have a column name. This lead me to

SELECT copy\_entity(:id) AS newEntityId

with "return-scalar" using newEntityId as column name, but this also did not work since Oracle then throws an exception that I can't call INSERT (to save the copy) in a SELECT.

Is there any way to get the return value of such a PL/SQL function? The function is actually much more complex and still required in other parts of the app, so re-writing it is not really an option.

Answer: 
The problem is that ie6/ie7 will expand an empty element to the height of your font. You can get around this by adding `font-size:0` and `line-height:0` to `.menu ul li.separator`.

A better solution would be to add a thicker bottom border to the `<li>` that is before the separator. 

```
.menu ul li.sep {border-bottom-width:6px}

<div class="menu">
  <ul>
    <li><a href="#">Item 1</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Item 2</a></li>
    <li class="sep"><a href="#">Item 3</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Item 4</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Item 5</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Item 6</a></li>
  </ul>
</div>

```
In addition to Daniel A. White answer you can experiment with line-height to center your text vertically and create the necessary height.