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/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date : 1 May 2010
SQL Version: SQL Server 2005/2008
Author : Jacob Sebastian
Email : jacobvettickal@gmail.com
Twitter : @jacobvettickal
Blog : https://jacobsebastian.com
Website : https://jacobsebastian.com
Summary:
This script returns a tabular representation of an XML document
Modification History:
Jacob Sebastian - 1 May 2010
Created the first version
Jacob Sebatian - 18 June 2010
Fixed a bug in the XPath Expressiong generated
Jacob Sebastian - 20 June 2010
Added new column - ParentName
Updated the 'treeview' column to show lines
Added new column - 'Position'
Added New Column - 'ParentPosition'
Jacob Sebastian - 23 June 2010
Made the function UNICODE compatibile. (Thanks Peso)
Jacob Sebastian - 30 June 2010
Corrected the casing of a few columns to make the function
work on case sensitive SQL Server installations.
(Thanks Rhodri Evans)
Disclaimer:
THIS CODE AND INFORMATION ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF
ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED
TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND/OR FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
/*
SELECT * FROM dbo.XMLTable('
<employees>
<emp name="jacob"/>
<emp name="steve">
<phone>123</phone>
</emp>
</employees>
')
*/
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[XMLTable](
@x XML
)
RETURNS TABLE
AS RETURN
/*----------------------------------------------------------------------
This INLINE TVF uses a recursive CTE that processes each element and
attribute of the XML document passed in.
----------------------------------------------------------------------*/
WITH cte AS (
/*------------------------------------------------------------------
Anchor part of the recursive query. Retrieves the root element
of the XML document
------------------------------------------------------------------*/
SELECT
1 AS lvl,
x.value('local-name(.)','NVARCHAR(MAX)') AS Name,
CAST(NULL AS NVARCHAR(MAX)) AS ParentName,
CAST(1 AS INT) AS ParentPosition,
CAST(N'Element' AS NVARCHAR(20)) AS NodeType,
x.value('local-name(.)','NVARCHAR(MAX)') AS FullPath,
x.value('local-name(.)','NVARCHAR(MAX)')
+ N'['
+ CAST(ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY (SELECT 1)) AS NVARCHAR)
+ N']' AS XPath,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY (SELECT 1)) AS Position,
x.value('local-name(.)','NVARCHAR(MAX)') AS Tree,
x.value('text()[1]','NVARCHAR(MAX)') AS Value,
x.query('.') AS this,
x.query('*') AS t,
CAST(CAST(1 AS VARBINARY(4)) AS VARBINARY(MAX)) AS Sort,
CAST(1 AS INT) AS ID
FROM @x.nodes('/*') a(x)
UNION ALL
/*------------------------------------------------------------------
Start recursion. Retrieve each child element of the parent node
------------------------------------------------------------------*/
SELECT
p.lvl + 1 AS lvl,
c.value('local-name(.)','NVARCHAR(MAX)') AS Name,
CAST(p.Name AS NVARCHAR(MAX)) AS ParentName,
CAST(p.Position AS INT) AS ParentPosition,
CAST(N'Element' AS NVARCHAR(20)) AS NodeType,
CAST(
p.FullPath
+ N'/'
+ c.value('local-name(.)','NVARCHAR(MAX)') AS NVARCHAR(MAX)
) AS FullPath,
CAST(
p.XPath
+ N'/'
+ c.value('local-name(.)','NVARCHAR(MAX)')
+ N'['
+ CAST(ROW_NUMBER() OVER(
PARTITION BY c.value('local-name(.)','NVARCHAR(MAX)')
ORDER BY (SELECT 1)) AS NVARCHAR )
+ N']' AS NVARCHAR(MAX)
) AS XPath,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER(
PARTITION BY c.value('local-name(.)','NVARCHAR(MAX)')
ORDER BY (SELECT 1)) AS Position,
CAST(
SPACE(2 * p.lvl - 1) + N'|' + REPLICATE(N'-', 1)
+ c.value('local-name(.)','NVARCHAR(MAX)') AS NVARCHAR(MAX)
) AS Tree,
CAST( c.value('text()[1]','NVARCHAR(MAX)') AS NVARCHAR(MAX) ) AS Value,
c.query('.') AS this,
c.query('*') AS t,
CAST(
p.Sort
+ CAST( (lvl + 1) * 1024
+ (ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY (SELECT 1)) * 2) AS VARBINARY(4)
) AS VARBINARY(MAX) ) AS Sort,
CAST(
(lvl + 1) * 1024
+ (ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY (SELECT 1)) * 2) AS INT
)
FROM cte p
CROSS APPLY p.t.nodes('*') b(c)
), cte2 AS (
SELECT
lvl AS Depth,
Name AS NodeName,
ParentName,
ParentPosition,
NodeType,
FullPath,
XPath,
Position,
Tree AS TreeView,
Value,
this AS XMLData,
Sort, ID
FROM cte
UNION ALL
/*------------------------------------------------------------------
Attributes do not need recursive calls. So add the attributes
to the query output at the end.
------------------------------------------------------------------*/
SELECT
p.lvl,
x.value('local-name(.)','NVARCHAR(MAX)'),
p.Name,
p.Position,
CAST(N'Attribute' AS NVARCHAR(20)),
p.FullPath + N'/@' + x.value('local-name(.)','NVARCHAR(MAX)'),
p.XPath + N'/@' + x.value('local-name(.)','NVARCHAR(MAX)'),
1,
SPACE(2 * p.lvl - 1) + N'|' + REPLICATE('-', 1)
+ N'@' + x.value('local-name(.)','NVARCHAR(MAX)'),
x.value('.','NVARCHAR(MAX)'),
NULL,
p.Sort,
p.ID + 1
FROM cte p
CROSS APPLY this.nodes('/*/@*') a(x)
)
SELECT
ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY Sort, ID) AS ID,
ParentName, ParentPosition,Depth, NodeName, Position,
NodeType, FullPath, XPath, TreeView, Value, XMLData
FROM cte2
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