Getting multiple records from xml column with value() in SQL Server

Question

This SQL only returns the first Activity element. How do I select them all? If I remove the [1] in the query I get an error that \"value() requires a singleton\".

Answer 1

This works, but seems unnecessarily complex. There may be an easier way.

 DECLARE @myDoc xml
    SET @myDoc = 
    '
        
            This is activity one
            This is activity two
            This is activity three
        
    '

SELECT activity.VALUE('(//Activity)[1]','varchar(100)') AS activity
FROM (
        SELECT NewTable.activity.query('.') AS activity
        FROM (SELECT 1 AS col1) AS t
        CROSS APPLY @myDoc.nodes('(/Root/Activities/Activity)') AS NewTable(activity)
     ) AS x