Question

I have a stored procedure which is passed XML as a parameter and then I have to read that xML and do some updates. The format of the XML is

<Requests>
    <RequestReference>R12345</RequestReference>
    <Inventory InventoryId="1" InventoryName="I1">
        <RequestCodes>
            <Code>AAA</Code>
        </RequestCodes>
    </Inventory>
    <Inventory InventoryId="2" InventoryName="I2">
        <RequestCodes>
            <Code>BBB</Code>
            <Code>CCC</Code>
        </RequestCodes>
    </Inventory>
    <Inventory InventoryId="3" InventoryName="I3">
        <RequestCodes>
            <Code>DDD</Code>
            <Code>EEE</Code>
            <Code>FFF</Code>
        </RequestCodes>
    </Inventory>
</Requests>

Now I need to read the XML in a table like

RequestReference    InventoryId InventoryName           Code
R12345                    1           I1            AAA
R12345                    2           I2            BBB
R12345                    2           I2            CCC
R12345                    3           I3            DDD
R12345                    3           I3            EEE
R12345                    3           I3            FFF

I am trying something like

SELECT 
    T.Item.value('@InventoryId', 'VARCHAR(3)')  AS InventoryId,
    T.Item.value('@InventoryName', 'VARCHAR(3)')    AS InventoryName,
    T.Item.value('RequestCodes[1]/Code[1]', 'VARCHAR(5)')   AS Code
FROM   
   @xmlDoc.nodes('Requests/Inventory') 
   AS T(Item)

The result which it produced is

InventoryId InventoryName   Code
1                 I1    AAA
2                 I2    BBB
3                 I3    DDD

So this seems to be working but not producing the desired results completely.

Answer 1

Use:

select *
from
(
SELECT
    T.Item.value('../../../RequestReference[1]', 'VARCHAR(20)')  AS RequestReference,
    T.Item.value('../../@InventoryId', 'VARCHAR(3)')  AS InventoryId,
    T.Item.value('../../@InventoryName', 'VARCHAR(3)')    AS InventoryName,
    T.Item.value('.', 'VARCHAR(5)')   AS Code
FROM   
   @xmlDoc.nodes('//Code') 
   AS T(Item)
)t
order by InventoryId, InventoryName, Code