read XML in SQL, no data being pulled - sql

Question

I am trying to retrieve data from an XML file. Below is how the XML doc looks and below that is my SQL code. It will run the code and show column headers - but will not populate with any data. What am I missing?
<profile xmlns="http://feed.elasticstats.com/schema/mma/v1/participants-profile.xsd" generated="2015-12-10T17:34:54Z">
<fighters>
<fighter id="01585452-852a-4b40-a6dc-fdd04279f02c" height="72" weight="170" reach="" stance="" first_name="Sai" nick_name="The Boss" last_name="Wang">
<record wins="6" losses="4" draws="1" no_contests="0" />
<born date="1988-01-16" country_code="UNK" country="Unknown" state="" city="" />
<out_of country_code="UNK" country="Unknown" state="" city="" />
</fighter>
<fighter id="0168dd6b-b3e1-4954-8b71-877a63772dec" height="" weight="0" reach="" stance="" first_name="Enrique" nick_name="Wasabi" last_name="Marin">
<record wins="8" losses="2" draws="0" no_contests="0" />
<born date="" country_code="UNK" country="Unknown" state="" city="" />
<out_of country_code="UNK" country="Unknown" state="" city="" />
</fighter>
DECLARE #x xml
SELECT #x = P
FROM OPENROWSET (BULK 'C:\Python27\outputMMA.xml', SINGLE_BLOB) AS FIGHTERS(P)
DECLARE #hdoc int
EXEC sp_xml_preparedocument #hdoc OUTPUT, #x
SELECT *
FROM OPENXML (#hdoc, '/fighters/fighter', 1) --1\ IS ATTRIBUTES AND 2 IS ELEMENTS
WITH (
id varchar(100),
height varchar(10),
last_name varchar(100)
) --THIS IS WHERE YOU SELECT FIELDS you want returned
EXEC sp_xml_removedocument #hdoc

Answer 1

FROM OPENXML is not the best approach any more. Try it like this:
Just copy this into an empty query window and execute:
DECLARE #xml XML=
'<profile xmlns="http://feed.elasticstats.com/schema/mma/v1/participants-profile.xsd" generated="2015-12-10T17:34:54Z">
<fighters>
<fighter id="01585452-852a-4b40-a6dc-fdd04279f02c" height="72" weight="170" reach="" stance="" first_name="Sai" nick_name="The Boss" last_name="Wang">
<record wins="6" losses="4" draws="1" no_contests="0" />
<born date="1988-01-16" country_code="UNK" country="Unknown" state="" city="" />
<out_of country_code="UNK" country="Unknown" state="" city="" />
</fighter>
<fighter id="0168dd6b-b3e1-4954-8b71-877a63772dec" height="" weight="0" reach="" stance="" first_name="Enrique" nick_name="Wasabi" last_name="Marin">
<record wins="8" losses="2" draws="0" no_contests="0" />
<born date="" country_code="UNK" country="Unknown" state="" city="" />
<out_of country_code="UNK" country="Unknown" state="" city="" />
</fighter>
</fighters>
</profile>';
WITH XMLNAMESPACES(DEFAULT 'http://feed.elasticstats.com/schema/mma/v1/participants-profile.xsd')
SELECT One.fighter.value('#id','uniqueidentifier') AS Fighter_ID
,One.fighter.value('#height','int') AS Fighter_Height
,One.fighter.value('#weight','int') AS Fighter_Weigth
,One.fighter.value('#reach','varchar(100)') AS Fighter_Height
,One.fighter.value('#stance','varchar(100)') AS Fighter_Height
,One.fighter.value('#first_name','varchar(100)') AS Fighter_FirstName
,One.fighter.value('#nick_name','varchar(100)') AS Fighter_NickName
,One.fighter.value('#last_name','varchar(100)') AS Fighter_LastName
,One.fighter.value('record[1]/#wins','int') AS FighterRecord_Wins
,One.fighter.value('record[1]/#draws','int') AS FighterRecord_Draws
,One.fighter.value('record[1]/#no_contests','int') AS FighterRecord_NoContest
,One.fighter.value('born[1]/#date','date') AS FighterBorn_Date
,One.fighter.value('born[1]/#country_code','varchar(10)') AS FighterBorn_CountryCode
,One.fighter.value('born[1]/#country','varchar(100)') AS FighterBorn_Country
,One.fighter.value('born[1]/#state','varchar(100)') AS FighterBorn_State
,One.fighter.value('born[1]/#city','varchar(100)') AS FighterBorn_City
,One.fighter.value('out_of[1]/#country_code','varchar(10)') AS FighterOutOf_CountryCode
,One.fighter.value('out_of[1]/#country','varchar(100)') AS FighterOutOf_Country
,One.fighter.value('out_of[1]/#state','varchar(100)') AS FighterOutOf_State
,One.fighter.value('out_of[1]/#city','varchar(100)') AS FighterOutOf_City
FROM #xml.nodes('/profile/fighters/fighter') AS One(fighter)

Answer 2

Firstly repair the data (:xs, </fighters>, </profile>)
<profile xmlns:xs="http://feed.elasticstats.com/schema/mma/v1/participants-profile.xsd" generated="2015-12-10T17:34:54Z">
<fighters>
<fighter id="01585452-852a-4b40-a6dc-fdd04279f02c" height="72" weight="170" reach="" stance="" first_name="Sai" nick_name="The Boss" last_name="Wang">
<record wins="6" losses="4" draws="1" no_contests="0" />
<born date="1988-01-16" country_code="UNK" country="Unknown" state="" city="" />
<out_of country_code="UNK" country="Unknown" state="" city="" />
</fighter>
<fighter id="0168dd6b-b3e1-4954-8b71-877a63772dec" height="" weight="0" reach="" stance="" first_name="Enrique" nick_name="Wasabi" last_name="Marin">
<record wins="8" losses="2" draws="0" no_contests="0" />
<born date="" country_code="UNK" country="Unknown" state="" city="" />
<out_of country_code="UNK" country="Unknown" state="" city="" />
</fighter>
</fighters>
</profile>
Then the code
FROM OPENXML (#docHandle, 'profile/fighters/fighter', 1)
and we are done
01585452-852a-4b40-a6dc-fdd04279f02c 72 Wang
0168dd6b-b3e1-4954-8b71-877a63772dec Marin

Answer 3

You have an undeclared namespace in your XML document. Consider the revision declaring the namespace and referencing it in xpath expression:
DECLARE #x xml;
SELECT #x = P
FROM OPENROWSET (BULK 'C:\Python27\outputMMA.xml', SINGLE_BLOB) AS FIGHTERS(P)
DECLARE #hdoc int
EXEC sp_xml_preparedocument #hdoc OUTPUT, #x,
'<root xmlns:doc="http://feed.elasticstats.com/schema/mma/v1/participants-profile.xsd"/>'
SELECT *
FROM OPENXML (#hdoc, '/doc:profile/doc:fighters/doc:fighter', 1)
WITH (
id varchar(100),
height varchar(10),
last_name varchar(100)
)
EXEC sp_xml_removedocument #hdoc