Reputation: 127
Prob an easy question, but I am new to forming XML in SQL 2005, but What would be the best FOR XML SQL statement to use to form the XML seen below from a table that looks like this?
Column1 Column2
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Baseball Football
Cricket Polo
Swim Beach
Desired XML output:
<Category Name="Baseball">
<Subcategory>Football</Subcategory>
</Category>
<Category Name="Cricket">
<SubCategory>Polo</Subcategory>
</Category>
<Category Name="Swim">
<SubCategory>Beach</Subcategory>
</Category>
Upvotes: 4
Views: 173
Reputation: 332531
Untested:
SELECT t.column1 AS "@Name",
t.column2 AS Subcategory
FROM TABLE t
FOR XML PATH ('Category')
Based on examples found here.
Upvotes: 4