insert data from xml column into temp table

Question

I have a xml column that look like

SET @XMLData = \'

        

Answer 1

First of all - please use appropriate data types! If your source data is XML - why aren't you using the XML datatype?

Also, if you have a Date in your table - why isn't that a DATE or DATETIME type?? And why is the Number a VARCHAR(50) ??

Makes no sense......

Then: you're not looking at the XML namespaces that are present in the XML document - but you must!

At lastly - I would recommend using the native XQuery support instead of the legacy, deprecated sp_xml_preparedocument / OpenXML approach....

Seems much easier, much clearer to me...

Use this:

-- variable declaration
DECLARE @XMLData XML

-- creating temporary table
CREATE TABLE #TEMP_TABLE
(
    REC_ID INT IDENTITY(1,1),
    [Id] INT,
    [Date] DATETIME2(3),
    [Number] INT
); 

and then use proper XQuery statements, including the XML namespaces to handle the data:

SET @XMLData = '
                    
                       1
                       0001-01-01T00:00:00
                       
                    
                    
                       42
                       2013-12-22T14:45:00
                       373
                    
                 '

;WITH XMLNAMESPACES ('http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/Gbms.Dto.Bijak' AS ns1,
                'http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/Gbms.Dto' AS ns2,
                'http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/Gbms.Dto.VirginBijak' AS ns3)
INSERT INTO #TEMP_TABLE(ID, Date, Number)
   SELECT
  xc.value('(ns2:Id)[1]', 'int'),
  xc.value('(ns3:Date)[1]', 'DateTime2'),
  xc.value('(ns3:Number)[1]', 'int')
   FROM 
  @XmlData.nodes('/ns1:ArrayOfEntityNested/ns1:EntityNested') AS xt(xc)