SQL Server XML Node Parsing - sql

Question

Fairly new to XML parsing in SQL Server. Here's what I have and what I'm trying to do.
I have a table with many rows similar to this:
+-------------------+------------------------------------+
| EDI_Assessment_ID | XML_TEXT |
+-------------------+------------------------------------+
| 12345 | text column containing XML |
| 12346 | text column containing XML |
+-------------------+------------------------------------+
The XML_Text column has a large XML text similar to this structure (i've simplified and only pasted the relevant portions of it:
<Assessment>
<ADLs>
<ADL_Group>
<ADL>bathing</ADL>
<Mapped_ADL Source="Calypso">Bathing</Mapped_ADL>
<ADL_Level>Requires only equipment to complete ADL</ADL_Level>
<Mapped_ADL_Level Source="Calypso">Independent</Mapped_ADL_Level>
<ADL_Equipment>HH shower</ADL_Equipment>
<ADL_Assisted_By_Info>
<ADL_Assisted_By>No one</ADL_Assisted_By>
</ADL_Assisted_By_Info>
</ADL_Group>
<ADL_Group>
<ADL>Continence-Bowel</ADL>
<Mapped_ADL Source="Calypso">Continence</Mapped_ADL>
<ADL_Level>Independent</ADL_Level>
<Mapped_ADL_Level Source="B/A">Independent</Mapped_ADL_Level>
<ADL_Equipment />
<ADL_Assisted_By_Info>
<ADL_Assisted_By>No one</ADL_Assisted_By>
</ADL_Assisted_By_Info>
</ADL_Group>
</Assessment>
How can i parse through the XML for each row in the table to return:
The ADL (bathing, Continence-Bowel) and
the ADL_Assisted_By_Info
I'm looking for the result set to return similar to this:
+-------------------+-------------+----------------------+------------------+----------------------+
| EDI_Assessment_ID | Bathing | ADL_Assisted_By_Info | Continence-Bowel | ADL_Assisted_By_Info |
+-------------------+-------------+----------------------+------------------+----------------------+
| 12345 | Independent | No one | Independent | No one |
+-------------------+-------------+----------------------+------------------+----------------------+

Answer 1

These solutions rely on something which, from the OP's sample data is not true; that the column of the datatype text has valid XML. The sample data is not, so this solution will not work against the sample data they have provided.
In fact, if all of the OP's sample data is poorly formed XML then they SQL Server is completely the wrong choice here. They should, ideally, be fixing their data first, and then changing the datatype to xml so that more bad XML can't in inserted into the database.
If, for whatever reason, they can't do that then they will need to find a different solution. SQL Server, however, isn't the solution. You're going to need something that is very good as string manipulation and work out the values that way. if you're doing this at a (large) dataset value then the process is probably going to slow down to a crawl.
Anyway, onto the point. Note the comment. There are 2 solution, the first, other than the validity, assumes that the bathing node is always the first ADL_GROUP element, and that Continence-Bowel is always the second:
WITH VTE AS(
SELECT 12345 AS ID,
CONVERT(text,
'<Assessment>
<ADLs>
<ADL_Group>
<ADL>bathing</ADL>
<Mapped_ADL Source="Calypso">Bathing</Mapped_ADL>
<ADL_Level>Requires only equipment to complete ADL</ADL_Level>
<Mapped_ADL_Level Source="Calypso">Independent</Mapped_ADL_Level>
<ADL_Equipment>HH shower</ADL_Equipment>
<ADL_Assisted_By_Info>
<ADL_Assisted_By>No one</ADL_Assisted_By>
</ADL_Assisted_By_Info>
</ADL_Group>
<ADL_Group>
<ADL>Continence-Bowel</ADL>
<Mapped_ADL Source="Calypso">Continence</Mapped_ADL>
<ADL_Level>Independent</ADL_Level>
<Mapped_ADL_Level Source="B/A">Independent</Mapped_ADL_Level>
<ADL_Equipment />
<ADL_Assisted_By_Info>
<ADL_Assisted_By>No one</ADL_Assisted_By>
</ADL_Assisted_By_Info>
</ADL_Group>
</ADLs>' + --I have added this line to make the XML valid. The sample you have will NOT work, as it is not valid XML
'</Assessment>') AS XML_Text
)
SELECT V.ID,
X.XML_Type,
T.AA.value('(ADL_Group/Mapped_ADL_Level/text())[1]','varchar(30)') AS Bathing,
T.AA.value('(ADL_Group/ADL_Assisted_By_Info/ADL_Assisted_By/text())[1]','varchar(30)') AS ADL_Assisted_By_Info,
T.AA.value('(ADL_Group/Mapped_ADL_Level/text())[2]','varchar(30)') AS ContinenceBowel,
T.AA.value('(ADL_Group[2]/ADL_Assisted_By_Info/ADL_Assisted_By/text())[1]','varchar(30)') AS ADL_Assisted_By_Info
FROM VTE V
CROSS APPLY (VALUES(TRY_CONVERT(xml, V.XML_Text))) X(XML_Type)
CROSS APPLY X.XML_Type.nodes('/Assessment/ADLs') T(AA);
If, however, that isn't true and there could be other nodes in play, with different values, then you could do the following for the SELECT (CTE not included):
SELECT V.ID,
X.XML_Type,
B.AG.value('(Mapped_ADL_Level/text())[1]','varchar(30)') AS Bathing,
B.AG.value('(ADL_Assisted_By_Info/ADL_Assisted_By/text())[1]','varchar(30)') AS ADL_Assisted_By_Info,
CB.AG.value('(Mapped_ADL_Level/text())[1]','varchar(30)') AS ContinenceBowel,
CB.AG.value('(ADL_Assisted_By_Info/ADL_Assisted_By/text())[1]','varchar(30)') AS ADL_Assisted_By_Info
FROM VTE V
CROSS APPLY (VALUES(TRY_CONVERT(xml, V.XML_Text))) X(XML_Type)
CROSS APPLY X.XML_Type.nodes('/Assessment/ADLs/ADL_Group') B(AG)
CROSS APPLY X.XML_Type.nodes('/Assessment/ADLs/ADL_Group') CB(AG)
WHERE B.AG.value('(ADL/text())[1]','varchar(30)') = 'bathing'
AND CB.AG.value('(ADL/text())[1]','varchar(30)') = 'Continence-Bowel';