Question

I have a varchar(max) field with XML data in it. I need to clean it by removing the spaces between the tags. For eg:

</tns:time_changed>   <tns:changed_properties>  

should be cleaned as

</tns:time_changed><tns:changed_properties>  

I need to do this in a single query and I cannot use replace all white spaces as there are other relevant spaces in the content.

Answer 1

Converted to XML type and it automatically took care of the spaces.
Replaced the

<?xml version="1.0"?>

from the field with a blank and it got rid of the error that I was getting “text/xmldecl not at the beginning of input”.