T-SQL, XQuery Invalid Column

Question

I'm just learning XQUERY and trying to accomplish what I thought would be very simple. Here's my T-SQL code:

DECLARE @XML xml
set @xml = '<resultsets><AppVersion>13.0</AppVersion></resultsets>'

-- Code below is wrong
select 
ResultSets.AppVersion.query('AppVersion').value('.', 'varchar(100)') as AppVersion
from @XML.nodes('/resultsets/AppVersion') ResultSets(AppVersion)

I cannot figure out exactly how to query that inner element, appversion. I'm not getting any errors, but I'm unable to return that 13.0 within the appversion inner-element. Can someone please help?

Answer 1

You've got one AppVersion too many. This returns your 13.0 :

DECLARE @XML xml
set @xml = '<resultsets><AppVersion>13.0</AppVersion></resultsets>'

-- Code below is right
select 
ResultSets.AppVersion.value('.', 'varchar(100)') as AppVersion
from @XML.nodes('/resultsets/AppVersion') ResultSets(AppVersion)

Your nodes method already gets down to the AppVersion nodes, so from there you don't need a further query, just the value.

Answer 2

If you only want one row as a result there is no need to use nodes.

DECLARE @XML xml
set @xml = '<resultsets><AppVersion>13.0</AppVersion></resultsets>'

select @XML.value('(/resultsets/AppVersion)[1]', 'varchar(100)') as AppVersion