Select data from XML file as table in TSQL

Question

Could someone show me some TSQL to use to query an xml file as if it were a table?

The file is on the server, \"C:\\xmlfile.xml\"

And contains

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Answer 1

In my case - the data I was interested in was contained in the node attributes rather than values. Below includes an example of how the attributes can be accessed.

DECLARE @xmlData XML
set @xmlData='







'


SELECT 
  ref.value('@FilterID', 'int') AS FilterID ,
  ref.value('@Name', 'NVARCHAR (10)') AS Name ,
  ref.value('@Code', 'NVARCHAR (10)') AS Code ,
  ref.value('@Department', 'NVARCHAR (3)') AS Department,
  ref.value('@Number', 'int') AS Number      
FROM @xmlData.nodes('/ArrayOfSpangemansFilter/SpangemansFilter') 
xmlData( ref )