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Asked: 2026-05-27T08:08:05+00:00

I am working on a stored procedure which shreds an XML document. One of

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I am working on a stored procedure which shreds an XML document. One of the child elements in the records being processed can sometimes be marked with the xsi:nil="true" attribute. Other times, it can contain a dateTime. I’m trying to insert a string into a column of my table which depends on whether or not this element has a value. For example:

[Status] = CASE WHEN (Rt.Item.value('(./Date)[1]', 'nvarchar(max)') = '') THEN N'SUBMITTED' ELSE N'PROCESSED' END

Unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to be working. What’s the correct to check if an element has a value in SQL Server?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Generally:

    theElementName[not(@xsi:nil eq 'true')]/any/other/needed/location/steps

    If the association of the "xsi" prefix to the appropriate namespace isn’t registered (the way to do this is implementation-specific and you need to check how this is to be done in your situation), one still can use:

    theElementName[not(@*[name() eq 'xsi:nil'] eq 'true')]
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