InstantForum.NET v2.9.0SQLServerCentralhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/notifications@sqlservercentral.comSat, 25 May 2013 04:40:39 GMT20http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1370122-21-1.aspxPersonally I would use XQuery to do the transformation. I save xslt for the hardest of transformations, but to be honest, I have been able to do most things in XQuery. If the data is already stored in your sql tables, this makes it a bit easier as you can use tsql and not have to worry about creating a clr or another app/ssis to read the data out, do the transformation and save it back.for example, I quickly created the following based on your example you documented to do the transformation using xquery:[code="sql"]DECLARE @xml XMLSET @xml = '<Appointments><Appointment id = "1"><person><Name>John Doe</Name></person><location><name>Main</name><address>456 Oak St.</address><State>NY</State></location></Appointment><Appointment id = "2"><person><Name>Jane Doe</Name></person><location><name>Main</name><address>456 Oak St.</address><State>NY</State></location></Appointment><Appointment id = "3"><person><Name>george Doe</Name></person><location><name>Satellite</name><address>123 Main St.</address><State>NY</State></location></Appointment></Appointments>'SELECT @xml.query('for $x in /Appointments return<Appointments> { for $y in distinct-values($x/Appointment/location/name/text()) return ($x/Appointment/location[name = $y])[1] } { for $y in $x/Appointment return <Appointment id="{$y/@id}"> {$y/person} <location name="{$y/location/name/text()}"/> </Appointment> }</Appointments>')[/code]You can see the main guts of the code is quite small and remodels the xml as you require.[url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189075.aspx[/url]Tue, 09 Oct 2012 01:29:18 GMTarthurolcothttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1370122-21-1.aspxI'm a newbie with XML, but i was wondering if somebody could get me started down the path of how to normalize out some XML data. I *think* if I can do this via XSLT, but not sure of what to research. Basically I have nodes that across the document have repeating groups, and I'm curious if I can normalize them into a common node. I'm hoping that I can use this as part of an SSIS package. I would have the first XSD, and the second XSD, what I don't have is the "transalation" peice.For example:...<Appointments> <Appointment id = "1"> <person> <Name>John Doe</Name </person> <location> <name>Main</name> <address>456 Oak St.</address> <State>NY</State> </location></Appointment> <Appointment id = "2"> <person> <Name>Jane Doe</Name </person> <location> <name>Main</name> <address>456 Oak St.</address> <State>NY</State> </location></Appointment> <Appointment id = "3"> <person> <Name>george Doe</Name </person> <location> <name>Satellite</name> <address>123 Main St.</address> <State>NY</State> </location></Appointment></Appointments>...How do I get that to be something more like...<Appointments> <location> <name>Main</name> <address>456 Oak St.</address> <State>NY</State> </location> <location> <name>Satellite</name> <address>123 Main St.</address> <State>NY</State> </location> <Appointment id = "3"> <person> <Name>george Doe</Name </person> <location name = "Satellite"/> </Appointment> <Appointment id = "2"> <person> <Name>Jane Doe</Name </person> <location name ="Main"/> </Appointment> <Appointment id = "1"> <person> <Name>John Doe</Name </person> <location name ="Main"/> </Appointment></Appointments>...Or something like that. I'm not that concerned with element v attribute, i'm more interested in how would I do the "normalization" peice. Right now being a DBA, i'm more inclined to load it to a staging database and do the "translation" via T-SQL, but I'm going to attempt to broaden my mind (scary).Thanks in advance,SeanMon, 08 Oct 2012 19:00:46 GMTsean hawkes