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Read dynamic XML

vineetbhargav

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January 13, 2015 at 6:32 am

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I have the xml which is dynamically created and we are not sure how to read it. for eg the below xml and the output that should come.
declare @p xml = '<root>
<DOCTOR.SSN>
<OldValue />
<NewValue>111111111</NewValue>
<DisplayName>Social Security Number</DisplayName>
</DOCTOR.SSN>
<DOCTOR.EMAILADDRESS>
<OldValue>abc.com</OldValue>
<NewValue>Julietest@yahoo.com</NewValue>
<DisplayName>Email Address</DisplayName>
</DOCTOR.EMAILADDRESS>
<DOCTOR.USERID>
<OldValue />
<NewValue>16454</NewValue>
</DOCTOR.USERID>
</root>'
OUTPUT:
OLD VALUE NEW VALUE
Social Security Name: NULL Social Security Name:11111111
EMAIL ADDRESS: abc.com EMAIL ADDRESS:Julietest@yahoo.com
USERID: NULL USERID: 16454
if the xml node doesnt have the displayname tag then it should use the node name like in <Doctor.USERID> we dont have display name, so it should take the USERID as the name and the value in old value and new value tag(see bold output).
Can you please help me with this..Thanks in advance.
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Vineet Bhargava
vineetbhargav@gmail.com

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Eugene Elutin SSC Guru Points: 59322 More actions · Answer 1

What kind of output do you want?

Your output example doesn't represent recordset...

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Eugene Elutin SSC Guru Points: 59322 More actions · Answer 2

You should be able to modify the following as per your requirements:

declare @p xml = '<root>

<DOCTOR.SSN>

<OldValue />

<NewValue>111111111</NewValue>

<DisplayName>Social Security Number</DisplayName>

</DOCTOR.SSN>

<DOCTOR.EMAILADDRESS>

<OldValue>abc.com</OldValue>

<NewValue>Julietest@yahoo.com</NewValue>

<DisplayName>Email Address</DisplayName>

</DOCTOR.EMAILADDRESS>

<DOCTOR.USERID>

<OldValue />

<NewValue>16454</NewValue>

</DOCTOR.USERID>

</root>'

SELECT n.value('local-name(.)','varchar(255)') AS Element

,n.value('./DisplayName[1]','varchar(255)') AS ValueName

,n.value('./OldValue[1]','varchar(255)') AS OldValue

,n.value('./NewValue[1]','varchar(255)') AS NewValue

FROM @p.nodes('/root/*') X(n)

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Mark Cowne One Orange Chip Points: 26944 More actions · Answer 3

Try this

SELECT COALESCE(x.r.value('(DisplayName/text())[1]','VARCHAR(100)'),PARSENAME(x.r.value('local-name(.)','VARCHAR(20)'),1)) + ':' + COALESCE(x.r.value('(OldValue/text())[1]','VARCHAR(100)'),'NULL') AS [OLD VALUE],

COALESCE(x.r.value('(DisplayName/text())[1]','VARCHAR(100)'),PARSENAME(x.r.value('local-name(.)','VARCHAR(20)'),1)) + ':' + COALESCE(x.r.value('(NewValue/text())[1]','VARCHAR(100)'),'NULL') AS [NEW VALUE]

FROM @p.nodes('/root/*') AS x(r)

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Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323504 More actions · Answer 4

are you having troulbe using XQuery?

here's an example based on your data, with that you can format it into columns or whatever.

/*--Results

SSN Email UserID

------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------

111111111 Julietest@yahoo.com 16454

*/

declare @p xml = '<root>

<DOCTOR.SSN>

<OldValue />

<NewValue>111111111</NewValue>

<DisplayName>Social Security Number</DisplayName>

</DOCTOR.SSN>

<DOCTOR.EMAILADDRESS>

<OldValue>abc.com</OldValue>

<NewValue>Julietest@yahoo.com</NewValue>

<DisplayName>Email Address</DisplayName>

</DOCTOR.EMAILADDRESS>

<DOCTOR.USERID>

<OldValue />

<NewValue>16454</NewValue>

</DOCTOR.USERID>

</root>'

select @p.value('(/root/DOCTOR.SSN/NewValue)[1]','nvarchar(30)') AS SSN,

@p.value('(/root/DOCTOR.EMAILADDRESS/NewValue)[1]','nvarchar(30)') AS Email,

@p.value('(/root/DOCTOR.USERID/NewValue)[1]','nvarchar(30)') AS UserID

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vineetbhargav Mr or Mrs. 500 Points: 522 More actions · Answer 5

thanks Mark, your solution worked for me ..thanks much.

Thanks And Regards
Vineet Bhargava
vineetbhargav@gmail.com