SQLServer:Namespaces preventing access to query data
- by Brian
Hi
A beginners question, hopefully easily answered. I've got an xml file I want to load into SQLServer 2008 and extract the useful informaiton.
I'm starting simple and just trying to extract the name (\gpx\name). The code I have is:
DECLARE @x xml;
SELECT @x = xCol.BulkColumn
FROM OPENROWSET (BULK 'C:\Data\EM.gpx', SINGLE_BLOB) AS xCol;
-- confirm the xml data is in @x
select @x as XML_Data
-- try and get the name of the gpx section
SELECT
c.value('name[1]', 'varchar(200)') as Name
from @x.nodes('gpx') x(c)
Below is a heavily shortened version of the xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<gpx xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" version="1.0" creator="Groundspeak Pocket Query" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/0 http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/0/gpx.xsd http://www.groundspeak.com/cache/1/0 http://www.groundspeak.com/cache/1/0/cache.xsd" xmlns="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/0">
<name>EM</name>
<desc>Geocache file generated by Groundspeak</desc>
<author>Groundspeak</author>
<email>[email protected]</email>
<time>2010-03-24T14:01:36.4931342Z</time>
<keywords>cache, geocache, groundspeak</keywords>
<wpt lat="51.2586" lon="-2.213067">
<time>2008-03-30T07:00:00Z</time>
<name>GC1APHM</name>
<desc>Sandman's Noble Hoard by Sandman1973, Unknown Cache (2/3)</desc>
<groundspeak:cache id="832000" available="True" archived="False" xmlns:groundspeak="http://www.groundspeak.com/cache/1/0">
<groundspeak:name>Sandman's Noble Hoard</groundspeak:name>
<groundspeak:placed_by>Sandman1973</groundspeak:placed_by>
</groundspeak:cache>
</wpt>
</gpx>
If the first two lines are replaced with just:
<gpx>
the above example works correctly, however I then can't access groundspeak:name (/gpx/wpt/groundspeak:cache/groundspeak:name), so my guess its a problem with the namespace.
Any help would be appriciated.
