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How to access the next sibling of an xml tag in openxml sql

So i have an XML file which looks like below

declare @xml
xml= '<ENVELOPE>
    <BILLFIXED>
        <BILLDATE>29-Jun-2019</BILLDATE>
        <BILLREF>123</BILLREF>
        <BILLPARTY>ABC</BILLPARTY>
    </BILLFIXED>
    <BILLOP>200</BILLOP>
    <BILLCL>200</BILLCL>
    <BILLDUE>29-Jun-2019</BILLDUE>
    <BILLOVERDUE>1116</BILLOVERDUE>
    <BILLFIXED>
        <BILLDATE>30-Jun-2019</BILLDATE>
        <BILLREF>April To June -19</BILLREF>
        <BILLPARTY>efg</BILLPARTY>
    </BILLFIXED>
    <BILLOP>100</BILLOP>
    <BILLCL>100</BILLCL>
    <BILLDUE>30-Jun-2019</BILLDUE>
    <BILLOVERDUE>1115</BILLOVERDUE>
</ENVELOPE>

Im trying to read this using openxml

DECLARE  @hDoc AS INT, @SQL NVARCHAR (MAX) 

EXEC sp_xml_preparedocument @hDoc OUTPUT, @XML 

select   BILLDATE, BILLREF, BILLPARTY, BILLOP,BILLCL,BILLDUE, BILLOVERDUE
from OPENXML(@hDoc, '//BILLFIXED') 
WITH  
( 
BillDate [varchar](50) 'BILLDATE', 
BIllREF [varchar](50) 'BILLREF', 
BILLPARTY [varchar](100) 'BILLPARTY' 
,BILLOP [varchar](100) 'BILLOP' 
 BILLCL[varchar](100) 'REFERENCE', 
 BILLDUE [varchar](100) 'BILLDUE', 
 BILLOVERDUE [varchar](100) 'BILLOVERDUE'
)

It was easy to extract <BILLFIXED> tag but not able to access the siblings tags

<BILLCL>
<BILLDUE>
<BILLOVERDUE>

any help in accessing these tags Thanks

Solution

  • I agree you should not use OPENXML, and instead use .nodes and .value.

    Unfortunately, SQL Server does not allow the sibling:: axis in XQuery, which would have made this much easier.

    You can do this purely using XQuery, by using the >> positional predicate.

    SELECT
      c.value('(BILLDATE /text())[1]', 'VARCHAR(20)') AS BILLDATE
    , c.value('(BILLREF  /text())[1]', 'VARCHAR(20)') AS BILLREF
    , c.value('(BILLPARTY/text())[1]', 'VARCHAR(20)') AS BILLPARTY
    , c.value('let $i := . return (/ENVELOPE/BILLOP     [. >> $i]/text())[1]', 'INT') AS BILLOP
    , c.value('let $i := . return (/ENVELOPE/BILLCL     [. >> $i]/text())[1]', 'INT') AS BILLCL
    , c.value('let $i := . return (/ENVELOPE/BILLDUE    [. >> $i]/text())[1]', 'VARCHAR(20)') AS BILLDUE
    , c.value('let $i := . return (/ENVELOPE/BILLOVERDUE[. >> $i]/text())[1]', 'INT') AS BILLOVERDUE
FROM @xml.nodes('/ENVELOPE/BILLFIXED') AS t(c);

    What this does is as follows:

    db<>fiddle

    If some of the nodes could be empty or missing, then you also need to check that the sibling node is before the next BILLFIXED node

    SELECT
      c.value('(BILLDATE /text())[1]', 'VARCHAR(20)') AS BILLDATE
    , c.value('(BILLREF  /text())[1]', 'VARCHAR(20)') AS BILLREF
    , c.value('(BILLPARTY/text())[1]', 'VARCHAR(20)') AS BILLPARTY
    , c.value('let $i := . let $nxt := (/ENVELOPE/BILLFIXED[. >> $i])[1] return (/ENVELOPE/BILLOP     [. >> $i][. << $nxt]/text())[1]', 'INT') AS BILLOP
    , c.value('let $i := . let $nxt := (/ENVELOPE/BILLFIXED[. >> $i])[1] return (/ENVELOPE/BILLCL     [. >> $i][. << $nxt]/text())[1]', 'INT') AS BILLCL
    , c.value('let $i := . let $nxt := (/ENVELOPE/BILLFIXED[. >> $i])[1] return (/ENVELOPE/BILLDUE    [. >> $i][. << $nxt]/text())[1]', 'VARCHAR(20)') AS BILLDUE
    , c.value('let $i := . let $nxt := (/ENVELOPE/BILLFIXED[. >> $i])[1] return (/ENVELOPE/BILLOVERDUE[. >> $i][. << $nxt]/text())[1]', 'INT') AS BILLOVERDUE
FROM @xml.nodes('/ENVELOPE/BILLFIXED') AS t(c);

    db<>fiddle

    One final option is to transform the XML into a more normalized structure, and then query that

    SELECT
      f.value('(BILLDATE   /text())[1]', 'VARCHAR(20)') AS BILLDATE
    , f.value('(BILLREF    /text())[1]', 'VARCHAR(20)') AS BILLREF
    , f.value('(BILLPARTY  /text())[1]', 'VARCHAR(20)') AS BILLPARTY
    , c.value('(BILLOP     /text())[1]', 'INT') AS BILLOP
    , c.value('(BILLCL     /text())[1]', 'INT') AS BILLCL
    , c.value('(BILLDUE    /text())[1]', 'VARCHAR(20)') AS BILLDUE
    , c.value('(BILLOVERDUE/text())[1]', 'INT') AS BILLOVERDUE
FROM (VALUES(
  @xml.query('
    for $bf in /ENVELOPE/BILLFIXED
    let $nxt := (/ENVELOPE/BILLFIXED[. >> $bf])[1]
    return
      <ENVELOPE>
        {$bf}
        {
            if ($nxt) then
                /ENVELOPE/*[. >> $bf][. << $nxt]
            else
                /ENVELOPE/*[. >> $bf]
        }
      </ENVELOPE>
  ')
) ) v(transformed)
CROSS APPLY v.transformed.nodes('/ENVELOPE') AS t(c)
CROSS APPLY t.c.nodes('BILLFIXED') t2(f);

    db<>fiddle

    Steps are as follows: