for passing text type argument to procedure

For parsing data > 8000 char I have defined a procedure that looks something like
create proc myproc @.doc text
as
blah blah blah
go

but now i need to pass text argument to it.
For that I need ::: declare @.newdoc text
and then call ::: exec myproc @.newdoc
but I cannot declare text type variable in the transact sql queries.

Is there a way out
thanksyou normally don't work directly with text, ntext and image data. When working with these types of data you normally pass pointers to the data and use functions/stored procedures to manipulate the data, TEXTPTR, WRITETEXT and UPDATETEXT. Check out "text and image data types" in Books On Line.