Wrapping an xml document loses utf coding - sql

Question

In Sql Server I'm using
select * from [Database].[dbo].[Table] for xml path ('whatever')
which gives me an xml output with, importantly, newline 
 notifiers on any entries that have the new lines.
I need this output wrapped in a few more xml formatting elements but using
select '<?xml version="1.0"?><root><whateverses>'
+ (select * from [Database].[dbo].[Table] for xml path ('whatever'))
+ '</whateverses></root>';
returns just a string, with the newlne notifiers MISSING.
How can I preserve these? How do I wrap my xml in a few extras while keeping the output as an xml?

Answer 1

By trying to wrap the XML in varchar/string you're implicitly converting the XML to varchar/string. If you want to embed the XML in other tags try something like the following:
select *
into [dbo].[Foo]
from (values ('Hello', 'World') ) Src ([Bar], [Baz]);
select *
from [dbo].[Foo]
for xml path ('whatever');
select (
select *
from [dbo].[Foo]
for xml path ('whatever'), type
)
for xml path('whateverses'), root('root');
Which yields the XML results:
<whatever>
<Bar>Hello</Bar>
<Baz>World</Baz>
</whatever>
and:
<root>
<whateverses>
<whatever>
<Bar>Hello</Bar>
<Baz>World</Baz>
</whatever>
</whateverses>
</root>