How to use IF/ELSE statement to update or create new xml node entry in Sql

Question

Example:

    
        Lopez, Michelle MD
        Spanish
        

        

Answer 1

You might want to just try replacing:

set @locAnchor = ('' + 
@locTitle + '');

with:

SELECT @locAnchor = (SELECT 'theloc.aspx?id=' + @locID AS 'Value6/a/@href',
@locTitle AS 'Value6/a/@title',
@locTitle AS 'Value6/a'
FOR XML PATH (''))

instead of trying to dynamically create the XML