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

Here is another situation and solution: I was searching for this situation where there are two elements to be selected using one query.

CREATE TABLE #Table1 (ID INT IDENTITY(1,1),XMLDoc XML)

INSERT INTO #Table1 VALUES ('
 
 Bookstore1
 Location1
 
     
     40
    
 ')

 INSERT INTO #Table1 VALUES ('
 
  Bookstore2
 Location2
 
     
     50
 
')


SELECT ID,
T.c.value('title[1]','varchar(50)') AS 'BookTitile',
T.c.value('price[1]','decimal(18,2)') AS 'Price'
FROM #Table1
CROSS APPLY #Table1.XMLDoc.nodes('/bookstore/book') T(c)

DROP TABLE #Table1

You can modify this as required to include XMLNamespaces. Solution originally found at :https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/35e75e32-9ffb-4a30-8637-2cc928554763/selecting-multiple-values-from-multiple-rows-of-xml?forum=sqlxml