Working with null values in SQL XML

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Working with null values in SQL XML

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R.P.Rozema

Posted Tuesday, November 02, 2010 12:09 AM

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@ismel: Yes, you are right. Typed xml will return you a correct null value because the parser then 'knows' about the element being nillable. In fact it then uses the exact same xsi:nil="true" attribute to indicate the null values. I indeed forgot to mention typed xml and it's different behaviour in the article. Personally I still find it hard to type the xml's in my projects: even though typed xml can be very useful, the xml collections impose some limitations that I can often not live with. That's probably why I forgot about them in the article;). Thank you for the valuable addition.

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