Question

I have an XML and I want to get the Xml Node values dynamically. I want to Pass the Node Name and the in return the function or SP should return me the value of that Node.

<ClassificationTypeEntity>

        <LTABLE_ID>3170</LTABLE_ID>

        <LTABLE_CODE>script Code</LTABLE_CODE>

        <LTABLE_DESC>alert(''hello'')</LTABLE_DESC>

        <ACTIVE_YES_NO>1</ACTIVE_YES_NO>enter code here

        <PRIVATE_FILING>0</PRIVATE_FILING>

        <RETENTION_CODE /><RETENTION_TITLE />

        <LTABLE_ID_P>0</LTABLE_ID_P>

</ClassificationTypeEntity>;

For Example, In the above xml, when I want the value of LTABLE_CODE Node, I will pass the same and the result should I get is

script code

Same for LTABLE_DESC the result should be alert(”hello”)

However I can write the 2 Xpath query for both but in case my schema gets changed (more properties added or removed) then I will have to change my SP also.

Thanks,
Mohit Jain

Answer 1

Thanks for your replies.

I have found the solution:

declare @xmlData xml, @NodeName VarChar(500), @nodeValue VarChar(500)

Set @NodeName = 'LTABLE_CODE';

--Set @NodeName = 'LTABLE_DESC';

set @xmlData = 

 '<ClassificationTypeEntity xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

   <LTABLE_ID>3170</LTABLE_ID>

   <LTABLE_CODE>&lt;script&gt;al</LTABLE_CODE>

   <LTABLE_DESC>&lt;script&gt;alert(''hello'')&lt;/script&gt;</LTABLE_DESC>

   <ACTIVE_YES_NO>1</ACTIVE_YES_NO>

   <PRIVATE_FILING>0</PRIVATE_FILING>

   <RETENTION_CODE /><RETENTION_TITLE />

   <LTABLE_ID_P>0</LTABLE_ID_P>

</ClassificationTypeEntity>'

SET @nodeValue = @xmlData.value('(/ClassificationTypeEntity/*[local-name()=sql:variable("@NodeName")])[1]','nvarchar(max)')

SELECT @nodeValue