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Varun Sharma
Varun Sharma

Reputation: 2758

XQuery - Fetch XML Value from SQL Server using XPath based on Condition

I have the following XML and you can see it contains three LevelA elements. I want to fetch /LevelA/Value (which is 9101) where /LevelA/LevelB2/LevelC == "Address". Now in PROD, the position of elements might change and so the address element might be first or last or in the middle. I am able to write two separate queries based on indexes but how to write one xpath query that contains the condition within it for matching with address and gives back 9101 independent of position of Level A elements.

DECLARE @x XML;
SET @x = '
<root>
    <LevelA>
        <LevelB>EqualTo</LevelB>
        <LevelB2>
            <LevelC>Item4</LevelC>
            <LevelC2>Item5</LevelC2>
            <LevelC3>
                <anyType xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="xsd:string">123456</anyType>
            </LevelC3>
        </LevelB2>
        <Value xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="xsd:boolean">true</Value>
    </LevelA>
    <LevelA>
        <LevelB>EqualTo</LevelB>
        <LevelB2>
            <LevelC>Item4</LevelC>
            <LevelC2>Item5</LevelC2>
            <LevelC3>
                <anyType xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="xsd:string">123456</anyType>
            </LevelC3>
        </LevelB2>
        <Value xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="xsd:boolean">true</Value>
    </LevelA>
    <LevelA>
        <LevelB>EqualTo</LevelB>
        <LevelB2>
            <LevelC>Address</LevelC>
            <LevelC2>House</LevelC2>
            <LevelC3/>
        </LevelB2>
        <Value xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="xsd:string">9101</Value>
    </LevelA>
</root>
'
SELECT @x.value('/root[1]/LevelA[3][1]/LevelB2[1]/LevelC[1]', 'varchar(max)')
SELECT @x.value('/root[1]/LevelA[3][1]/Value[1]', 'int')

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 123

Answers (1)

Martin Smith
Martin Smith

Reputation: 452957

You can do

SELECT @x.value('(/root/LevelA[LevelB2/LevelC = "Address"]/Value)[1]', 'int')

To apply the predicate to LevelA that LevelB2/LevelC/text() is "Address"

DB Fiddle

Upvotes: 1

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