InstantForum.NET v2.9.0SQLServerCentralhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/notifications@sqlservercentral.comWed, 22 May 2013 00:06:39 GMT20http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic962197-1633-1.aspxHi,I have some XML like the following<Root><Meters><Meter><Reads><Read>...</Read><Read>...</Read><Read>...</Read></Reads><LineItems><LineItem>...</LineItem><LineItem>...</LineItem><LineItem>...</LineItem><LineItem>...</LineItem></LineItems></Meter><Meter><Reads><Read>...</Read><Read>...</Read><Read>...</Read></Reads><LineItems><LineItem>...</LineItem><LineItem>...</LineItem><LineItem>...</LineItem><LineItem>...</LineItem></LineItems></Meter></Meters></Root>So for each <Meters> node, I can have multiple <Meter> nodes, for each <Reads> node, I can have multiple <Read> nodes, for each <LineItems> node, I can have multiple <LineItem> nodes. The contents within a <Read> node is completely different from the contents within a I am trying to convert this XML so that it can be displayed in a tablix, where the table grouping is on the meter node (so for each meter, this will create a row in the tablix), and for each row in the table, then I was looking to have this do its own grouping within it, with the <Reads> node being its own table within the tablix, that expands, depending on how many of the <Read> nodes there are, and then on the same level, then another grouping in another tablix for the <LineItems>, which will expand depending on how many <LineItem> nodes there are. For each <Meter> node, there will only be one <Reads> and <LineItems> node. I imagine that the tablix for the <LineItem> and the tablix for the <Read> nodes are both within a cell of the tablix for the <Meter> nodes, so it is basically a repeating group, and within it, I have two more repeating groups. Is this possible? It sounds possible in my head, but the main roadblock in my way is how do I create a single dataset from the XML that can do this? It needs to be a single dataset, so that I can do the grouping on the meter node I think? I wouldn't be able to do grouping on disparate datasets. I can take blocks of XML that can be represented by a block by using the <Query><XMLData>...</XMLData><ElementPath>...</ElementPath></Query> method, but if it is possible to use this to extract data out of a data source where the XML datasource is more complex.If this is possible, does anyone have any examples of this being done? Any help would be extremely welcomed.Mon, 02 Aug 2010 07:46:09 GMTkyagi.jo