How to parse SOAP XML in SQL Server and show as table - sql

Question

I need to parser a SOAP xml in SQL Server and convert it to table
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<soap:Body>
<ExecCommandResponse xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">
<ExecCommandResult>
<Result xmlns="">
<row>
<LOT>VERL5B3002PL</LOT>
<ID>115</ID>
<WH>710</WH>
<STPL>12</STPL>
</row>
<row>
<LOT>VERL68804EVN</LOT>
<ID>3716</ID>
<WH>771</WH>
<STPL>6</STPL>
</row>
</Result>
</ExecCommandResult>
</ExecCommandResponse>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
I need to parser a SOAP xml in sql server and convert it to table
LOT | ID | WH | STPL
VERL68804EVN | 3716 | 771 | 6

Answer 1

Use the up-to-date functions to query XML.
Your XML is not very clean looking on the namespaces. There are two default namespaces, one of them empty... Therefore I would avoid (mask) them entirely.
DECLARE #xml XML=
'<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<soap:Body>
<ExecCommandResponse xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">
<ExecCommandResult>
<Result xmlns="">
<row>
<LOT>VERL5B3002PL</LOT>
<ID>115</ID>
<WH>710</WH>
<STPL>12</STPL>
</row>
<row>
<LOT>VERL68804EVN</LOT>
<ID>3716</ID>
<WH>771</WH>
<STPL>6</STPL>
</row>
</Result>
</ExecCommandResult>
</ExecCommandResponse>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>';
SELECT r.value('LOT[1]','varchar(max)') AS LOT
,r.value('ID[1]','int') AS ID
,r.value('WH[1]','int') AS WH
,r.value('STPL[1]','int') AS STPL
FROM #xml.nodes('/*:Envelope/*:Body/*:ExecCommandResponse/*:ExecCommandResult/*:Result/*:row') AS A(r)
--or even simpler (would even work without the *:):
SELECT r.value('LOT[1]','varchar(max)') AS LOT
,r.value('ID[1]','int') AS ID
,r.value('WH[1]','int') AS WH
,r.value('STPL[1]','int') AS STPL
FROM #xml.nodes('//*:row') AS A(r)
In general I'd say: Be as specific as possible, therefore rather suggest the first...

Answer 2

Try Below. See if it works.
declare #xmldata xml = '<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<soap:Body>
<ExecCommandResponse>
<ExecCommandResult>
<Result xmlns="">
<row>
<LOT>VERL5B3002PL</LOT>
<ID>115</ID>
<WH>710</WH>
<STPL>12</STPL>
</row>
<row>
<LOT>VERL68804EVN</LOT>
<ID>3716</ID>
<WH>771</WH>
<STPL>6</STPL>
</row>
</Result>
</ExecCommandResult>
</ExecCommandResponse>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>'
declare #readdoc as INT
EXEC sp_xml_preparedocument #readdoc OUTPUT, #xmldata , '<root xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" />'
select LOT,ID,WH,STPL
from OPENXML(#readdoc,'soap:Envelope/soap:Body/ExecCommandResponse/ExecCommandResult/Result/row')
with
(
LOT [varchar](50) 'LOT',
ID [varchar](50) 'ID',
WH [varchar](50) 'WH',
STPL [varchar](50) 'STPL'
)
EXEC sp_xml_removedocument #readdoc
GO
Below is the output.