How to choose returned column name in a SELECT FOR XML query?

Question

MS SQL has a convenient workaround for concatenating a column value from multiple rows into one value:

SELECT col1
 FROM table1
 WHERE col2 = \'x\'
 ORDER by col         


        

Answer 1

DECLARE @XmlData XML;

SET @XmlData = (
        SELECT *
        FROM [dbo].[TABLE1]
        FOR XML PATH('ChildNodeDetailsResponse')
            ,ROOT('ParentNode')
        )

SELECT @XmlData AS Result

Answer 2

Try this...

select
(
    select '@greeting' = 'hello', '@where' = 'there', '@who' = 'world'
    for xml path ('salutation'), type
) as 'MyName'

Note: If you omit the "type" after the "for xml", you get (I think) a string.

Answer 3

For EXPLICIT xml generation - with unions you need to wrap results one more time (As a bonus result as XML):

SELECT 
    CAST(  
        (
            SELECT 
                * 
            FROM (
                SELECT 
                    1 AS Tag
                    ,NULL AS Parent
                    ...
                UNION ALL
                SELECT ...
                FOR XML EXPLICIT
            )
        ) as XML) as [MyName]

Answer 4

DECLARE @XmlData XML;
SET @XmlData =(SELECT * FROM [dbo].[Users] ORDER by UserName FOR XML path(''))
SELECT @XmlData AS Result

Answer 5

That should do:

select(
SELECT col1
 FROM table1
 WHERE col2 = 'x'
 ORDER by col3
 FOR XML path('')
) as myName

Not pretty but should give the result that you need

Answer 6

stored procedure

declare @requestResultXML xml

set @requestResultXML =
            (
                SELECT 'NPOIT-1.0' AS '@Interface',
                (
                    select  'Query'     as '@Type',
                            'GetBill'   as '@Query',
                            'True'      as '@CompressResult'
                        FOR XML PATH('Head'), TYPE
                ),
                (
                    select  @pin        as '@PIN',
                            @period     as '@Period',
                            @number     as '@Number',
                            @barcode    as '@Barcode'
                        FOR XML PATH('QueryParams'), TYPE
                )   as Data

                FOR XML PATH('DataExchangeModule')              
            )

select @requestResultXML as GetBillRequest