Filter SQL queries on the XML column using XPath/XQuery

Question

I\'m having a table with one XML column. I\'d like to filter out the rows where a specific attribute in the XML match a string, essentially doing a WHERE or HAVING.

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Answer 1

Found it. Instead of using query() I should be using exist().

My query would then be

SELECT id, xml.query('data(/xml/info/@name)') as Value
FROM Table1
WHERE xml.exist('/xml/info/[@name=sql:variable("@match")]') = 1