Get the names of attributes from an element in a SQL XML column

Question

For this xml (in a SQL 2005 XML column):

 1
 
 

         


        

Answer 1

this:

declare @xml as xml

set @xml = 
'
 1
 
 
'

select @xml.query('
    for $attr in /doc/b/@*
    return local-name($attr)') 

returns:

ba bb bc