SQL Server - OPENXML for XML within XML - sql

Question

I have an issue where I am reading data from an XML and one of the columns is an another XML. When I adjust the data type to varchar(max) or nvarchar(max) I get Null and when using XML data type I get "Element-centric mapping must be used with OPENXML when one of the columns is of type XML."
The column that contains the raw XML is raw_xml.
My goal would be to save the XML as another table with attributes of the parent XML, but I am failing in even reading it.
declare #xml XML
SELECT #xml=CAST(REPLACE(y, 'UTF-16','UTF-8') as XML)
FROM OPENROWSET( BULK 'D:\myxml.xml', SINGLE_CLOB) x(y)
DECLARE #hdoc int
EXEC sp_xml_preparedocument #hdoc OUTPUT, #xml
Select *
from OPENXML (#hdoc, '/LoanApplications/LoanApplication/LoanApplicationStates/LoanApplicationState/Customers/Customer/Reports/Report',1)
WITH(
active varchar(255),
valid varchar(255),
bureau varchar(255),
report_date datetime,
score varchar(255),
--raw_xml varchar(255),
raw_xml [xml] ,
create_date datetime,
update_date datetime,
updated_by varchar(255),
deal_detail_id bigint,
bundle_id bigint
)
EXEC sp_xml_removedocument #hdoc
Sample XML, The data stored in xml_raw doesnt look like XML format, but not sure if that because of the formatting or not.
<Reports>
<Report active="True" valid="True" bureau="EX" report_date="2016-03-27T19:06:32.3470000" score="111" raw_xml="<Response Score="111"" create_date="2016-03-27T19:06:32.4430000" update_date="2016-03-27T19:06:32.4430000" updated_by="System [No User Available]" deal_detail_id="123" bundle_id="5656" />
</Reports>

Answer 1

Thx for the example...
If you execute this
DECLARE #xml XML=
' <Reports>
<Report active="True" valid="True" bureau="EX" report_date="2016-03-27T19:06:32.3470000" score="111" raw_xml="<Response Score="111"" create_date="2016-03-27T19:06:32.4430000" update_date="2016-03-27T19:06:32.4430000" updated_by="System [No User Available]" deal_detail_id="123" bundle_id="5656" />
</Reports>';
SELECT #xml.value('(/Reports/Report/#raw_xml)[1]','varchar(max)');
You get this
<Response Score="111"
The problem is, that your attribut "raw_xml" seems to be the beginning of XML, but it is not complete... You'll not be able to cast this to XML...
Did you manipulate the XML in order to reduce it for an example, or is this your "real data"? If it's real, your might be in trouble...
UPDATE
Just to show you how to get the data without FOR OPENXML
DECLARE #xml XML=
' <Reports>
<Report active="True" valid="True" bureau="EX" report_date="2016-03-27T19:06:32.3470000" score="111" raw_xml="<Response Score="111"" create_date="2016-03-27T19:06:32.4430000" update_date="2016-03-27T19:06:32.4430000" updated_by="System [No User Available]" deal_detail_id="123" bundle_id="5656" />
</Reports>';
SELECT R.value('#active','bit') AS active
,R.value('#valid','bit') AS valid
,R.value('#bureau','varchar(max)') AS bureau
,R.value('#report_date ','datetime') AS report_date
,R.value('#score ','int') AS score
,R.value('#raw_xml ','varchar(max)') AS raw_xml
,R.value('#create_date ','datetime') AS create_date
,R.value('#update_date ','datetime') AS update_date
,R.value('#updated_by ','varchar(max)') AS updated_by
,R.value('#deal_detail_id ','bigint') AS deal_detail_id
,R.value('#bundle_id ','bigint') AS bundle_id
FROM #xml.nodes('/Reports/Report') AS A(R);