Question

I’m using XQuery to perform addition. Following is the structure of XML saved in database:

    <Events>
        <Event>
            <id>1</id>
            <code>1001</code>
            <Amount>50,1</Amount>
        </Event>
        <Event>
            <id>1</id>
            <code>1002</code>
            <Amount>5,5</Amount>
        </Event>
             <Event>
            <id>1</id>
            <code>1001</code>
            <Amount>50,1</Amount>
        </Event>
        <Event>
            <id>1</id>
            <code>1002</code>
            <Amount>5,5</Amount>
        </Event>
    </Events>

I want to get below output by using XQuery: the sum of amount having same code. Please note , is .. I need to replace , by . and the perform arithmetic operation.

 <Total>               
            <1001> 100,2 </1001>
            <1002> 11,0 </1002>
   </Total>

Answer 1

If your XQuery processor supports XQuery 3.0, use the group by statement.

<Total>
{
  for $i in //Event
  let $code := $i/code
  group by $code
  return element {"code"} { attribute {"id"} {$code}, sum($i/Amount)}
}
</Total>

There are two differences to the XML snippets in your question: I changed the floating point seperator to points (which is required, of course you could do this using some XQuery string operations, too) and element names may not consist of numbers only, have a look at the element naming rules. I decided to return the code as id-attribute instead in my example.